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From the very same article you posted > "As for the accuracy of the death toll, other experts have previously told us that while it’s true that some deaths att
by richeyryan 6y ago
From the very same article you posted
> "As for the accuracy of the death toll, other experts have previously told us that while it’s true that some deaths attributed to COVID-19 likely would have occurred regardless of the disease, other factors — like the deaths of undiagnosed COVID-19 victims, including those that occur at home — contribute to a more significant problem of under-counting the deaths."
- scottlocklin 6y agoFunny I have friends "on both sides of this issue" so I went out and did the common sense thing of adding up the CDC deaths, subtracting the baseline average deaths and noticing that the difference between 2020 and previous years is pretty much exactly the number of deaths the CDC attributes to Covid. You don't need to be an expert to do that. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/#S2 https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/#S2