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Originally Posted by Joelack99
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.
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Pretty sure you know less about this than Dr Birx. The guidelines for coding deaths allow Doctors to code the pneumonia death as a covid 19 death (without a positive test) if they "suspect" death due to covid 19.
Also, USA testing is not among the lowest in the world, currently we have tested 33,500 per million citizens, the highest are at 60,000, lowest at 1200 per million.
• COVID-19 testing rate by country | Statista