[conspire] US COVID-19 megadeaths: 0.2 & counting

[Deirdre Saoirse Moen]

> On Aug 8, 2020, at 10:49 AM, Michael Paoli <Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/05/us/coronavirus-death-toll-us.html
> "200,700 more people have died than usual from March 15 to July 25" ... "54,000 higher than the official count of coronavirus deaths for that period"
> 
> What, somebody suppressed about 20% of the numbers?
> That would never happen, right, ... right?

Unsurprisingly, the dismal science, The Economist, was the first to cover this:

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/07/15/tracking-covid-19-excess-deaths-across-countries

Deirdre


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