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Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr

Cases have everything to do with the mortality rate and here is why. In countries where there is less testing, fewer cases are discovered. Because of this, people are dying of Covid and those deaths are not recognized as Covid deaths because the people have never been tested so they are not considered a Covid death.

Here we have people that are dying of underlying conditions that have been exacerbated by Covid. In some countries if someone who has not been tested and found positive dies of a heart attack, it is listed as a heart attack death even though it may have been a Covid related death.

Not everybody that dies in the US have been tested for Covid either. The number of related deaths may well be underestimated in every country.

Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr

We also are counting the death of anyone who has Covid as a Covid death regardless of the cause of death. There have been people with Covid killed in car accidents that are listed as Covid deaths. I doubt that any other country is doing that.

This is absolutely false. It goes directly against the CDC guidelines for certifying Covid deaths. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/vsrg/vsrg03-508.pdf
This oft-repeated claim has also been debunked here: Are CDC Guidelines for Reporting COVID-19 Deaths Artificially Inflating Numbers?