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Topic	Politics Containment Topic 311: Ye says Nay
Reg 07/16/20 9:56:42 PM #144:	Forceful_Dragon posted... I don't know if "wrong" is the right word. Isn't it just that they count even the most lightly suspected (but not confirmed) deaths as being COVID related causing inflated numbers? It's difficult to compare across countries when there isn't a standardized metric for "counting" cases. Uhhh, if anything the exact opposite is happening here. For example, Texas and Florida both have something like 5x as many (supposedly non-Covid) pneumonia deaths from Feb-May this year than in a normal year according to CDC data https://twitter.com/Buckleup36/status/1277023213118279680?s=20 <cite>Reg posted [p:942210991] in Politics C... [t:78848987]...</cite> <quote>Forceful_Dragon posted... </cite> <quote>I don't know if "wrong" is the right word. Isn't it just that they count even the most lightly suspected (but not confirmed) deaths as being COVID related causing inflated numbers? It's difficult to compare across countries when there isn't a standardized metric for "counting" cases.</quote>Uhhh, if anything the exact opposite is happening here. For example, Texas and Florida both have something like 5x as many (supposedly non-Covid) pneumonia deaths from Feb-May this year than in a normal year according to CDC data https://twitter.com/Buckleup36/status/1277023213118279680?s=20 </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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