https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/05/06/994287048/new-study-estimates-more-than-900-000-people-have-died-of-covid-19-in-u-s …https://twitter.com/transscribe/status/1391096541138534402 …
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some of us have been yelling for six months or more that the official US COVID death toll was sure to be an undercount by a huge factor, and every so often there's a report that confirms that, and then it just kind of vanishes and everyone goes back to the lower figure.
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It's not "over half a million", it's nearly a million. In this country, the richest and "most advanced" in the world, with "the best healthcare". Nearly a million people, disproportionately nonwhite and working-class.
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some of us have also been yelling for at least a year that the press needs to start using the big G-word.
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