it's bad science to pick out one small sample of the most affected town (especially when arguably they could have considered the entirety of deaths) and extrapo

it's bad science to pick out one small sample of the most affected town (especially when arguably they could have considered the entirety of deaths) and extrapolating that "death rate is 4 times" . There is no statistical testing here, no confidence intervals, nothing. The 4x number is unsubstantiated. The hypothesis that the numbers are misreported seems to be true, but statistical tests are missing.