These are incredibly, astonishingly low numbers, even if you assume a lot of undercounting.https://twitter.com/WHOAFRO/status/1263033806132568065 …
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I agree with you, but I think the failure to count everything is quite consistent behavior, and also no surprise to epidemiologists. The failure of large body counts to materialize in the most populous places several months into the pandemic is the really strong negative evidence
if i may be more conspiratorial, you mean you’re not finding out about reliable excess death counts in random low-resource countries from which you don’t speak the language or understand the local context?
i’ve not left my neighbourhood in two months, if you told me 1% of the state of Georgia had died in their sleep at home, how would i know? local journalism has been furloughed. i’ve just been meditating on the gaps of knowledge in my own jurisdiction. i hear fewer sirens…
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