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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Apr 2020

      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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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Apr 2020

      2. How much of an undercount. According to Bloomberg Opinion, research done in Italian village found "there had been 158 deaths in the town in 2020 so far, as opposed to 35 on average in the previous five years." Only 31 of those 158 deaths attributed to COVID-19.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Apr 2020

      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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Apr 2020

      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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        1. Julie E. Miller‏ @jem0622 13 Apr 2020
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          Same happened with Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.

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        2. XLProfessor‏ @XLProfessor 13 Apr 2020
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          XLProfessor Retweeted Jeet Heer

          This is correct. Media, Democrats, and states need to focus *right now* on excess deaths, not confirmed coronavirus deaths, for three reasons: 1) Citizens need to know 2) Preventing Trump ending lockdown early 3) The GOP will never accept later revisionshttps://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1249718591160639494?s=20 …

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          Jeet HeerVerified account @HeerJeet
          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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        3. XLProfessor‏ @XLProfessor 13 Apr 2020
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          XLProfessor Retweeted XLProfessor

          The first two are important now, but we should recognize now that the GOP will NEVER accept the true #Covid_19 death toll, for political reasons It is essential that the initial count be as close to the real count as is feasible, and err on the high sidehttps://twitter.com/XLProfessor/status/1249723176877162496?s=20 …

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          This is correct. Media, Democrats, and states need to focus *right now* on excess deaths, not confirmed coronavirus deaths, for three reasons: 1) Citizens need to know 2) Preventing Trump ending lockdown early 3) The GOP will never accept later revisions https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1249718591160639494?s=20 …
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        1. Hampus Eckerman‏ @motbilder 13 Apr 2020
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          Doesn't seem to be true for all countries. https://www.euromomo.eu/ pic.twitter.com/3zxxA3gryv

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        1. cryborg‏ @cryborg 13 Apr 2020
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          Except for the % of “un-ppl” likely getting incinerated in Trump’s concentration camps and elsewhere.

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