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Re:Over half of Covid hospitalisations tested positive after... by nickthemagicman on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @01:41PM (#27975255)
It's looking like the reported numbers may be over-estimated by one or more orders of magnitude....that's the definition of sensational.
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Re:Over half of Covid hospitalisations tested positive after... by pwinnski on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @01:45PM (#27986819)
This is completely contrary to what "excess death" statistics suggest, which is that we might be under-counting COVID deaths by quite a bit. We've had many more unexpected excess deaths in 2020 and 2021 than can be explained by the official COVID death counts, so it's highly possible that some COVID-caused deaths aren't being recorded as such.

It could be that a bit more than 625,000 people have died in the US due to COVID. Or it could be higher than that, and it may be a couple of years before we know for sure. It's not lower, though. Not at all.

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