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This was not standard in [most of] the US two months ago.

• heavyset_go 6y ago
  They certainly were doing this in the NYC area when tests were scarce and the dead were piling up. People were complaining about it without understanding the implications then, too.
  • guscost 6y ago
    Are you arguing that they have started doing this in other places because tests are scarce? Because the dead are piling up? Really?
    • heavyset_go 6y ago
      Please refer to a few months ago when the dead were piling up in NY faster than the infected could be tested for CoVID.
  • emn13 6y ago
    To further underline what you're saying is both true and OK; once they started doing that, death tallies started at least getting close to excess deaths, although (IIRC, and I might have misremembered) despite diagnosing covid without PCR, excess deaths always exceeded diagnosed cases - i.e. almost certainly the doctors etc were being fairly conservative. (Although they didn't try to diagnose people that died before even reaching the hospital, which were thousands - and would have contributed to excess deaths, but not covid numbers).