cwerdna
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Yes, it seems likely you heard claims like this from the "news" outlets you follow. That's what what I've heard from another forum in a "Why do people believe COVID-19 conspiracy theories?" thread about the source of this. https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/right-wing-media-suggested-covid-19-fatalities-were-overcounted-new-data seems to confirm that.LTLFTcomposite said:Thousands of people die every day, it's a big country. A lot of those deaths aren't even related to the virus, providers just code them that way for the uninsured so they will get paid.
Yet https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/01/official-us-coronavirus-death-toll-is-a-substantial-undercount-of-actual-tally-new-yale-study-finds.html
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2767980 seems to indicate the opposite, that COVID-19 death numbers are actually substantially undercounted.
Even if we discount deaths, you can't ignore hospitals and ICUs filling up.