There is no question that the numbers are inaccurate. However there are forces “pulling” the numbers in both directions. For example, a person dies of pneumonia and is listed this way unless they have a positive COVID test. If never tested, you never know. The US’s testing is among the lowest in the world. On the other side are some of the situations described in these posts.
Bottom line: the only way we will actually know the numbers of COVID-causes deaths will be to forensically compare the number of dead to the statistically expected numbers. So far that number is larger than the reported numbers, I.e., the number killed by the virus is larger than the reported number by up to 20-50%. (22% in NY, the largest locality of deaths in the world according to the CDC.)
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