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The pandemic’s true death toll: millions more than official counts

• hitpointdrew 5y ago
  • rogerkirkness 5y ago
    To confirm, this is Nature - if Nature is not authoritative on science... what is?
    • hitpointdrew 5y ago
      Anyone that takes the time to do little digging rather than making wild claims based on surface information. The UK has released data via freedom of information requests, and from those we definitively know that COVID is far less deadly than it is being portrayed. This Nature article is naive at best, and horrifyingly dishonest at worst. Watch for yourself. https://youtu.be/1O7ugdwv3iY https://youtu.be/1O7ugdwv3iY
• IAmEveryone 5y ago
  It should be noted that it could be said that both death counts are "official". They are just assembled via different means. The undercount in the Covid-specific statistics is both well-known and officially acknowledged. It is the result of limitations in the process, such as an inability to infer causality for specific cases, limits in the availability and accuracy of tests and so on.