1. The official count for COVID-19 is an undercount -- possibly a considerable undercount. In most places, it misses those who died at home or in nursing homes before being diagnosed.
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3. We won't get an accurate count till after the pandemic is over, when social scientists can then try to calculate excess deaths. But talking about these unrecorded deaths is important, to give public a sense of what is happening.
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4. Politically, being upfront about uncounted deaths can help guard against the premature end to the lockdown that Trump, the right-wing media, and factions of big business want. More here:https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/undercounting-coronavirus-death-count/ …
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So, a 5x undercount. Yikes!
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4x, but still...
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