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Old 05-15-2021, 09:15 AM
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Originally Posted by tuccillo View Post
No, the NYT article had 574K excess death, not COVID deaths, through February 2021. I didn't bookmark the link.
Well then the NYT didn't use the data from the CDC site that I linked above. I have no idea what the NYT based their number on.

OR, they used that data but noted that their numbers may be undercounts since the data was still being updated.
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