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

Sat Aug 8 11:20:21 PDT 2020

My bad, wrong tab. It was Financial Times in April.

https://www.ft.com/content/6bd88b7d-3386-4543-b2e9-0d5c6fac846c

Deirdre

> On Aug 8, 2020, at 11:17 AM, Deirdre Saoirse Moen <deirdre at deirdre.net> wrote:
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>> On Aug 8, 2020, at 10:49 AM, Michael Paoli <Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu> wrote:
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>> 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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