The latest scare news regarding Covid-19 that was widely disseminated!
As usual, the death count is very likely significantly inflated. Anybody who dies with Covid-19 infection or positive test is listed regardless of actual cause of death. How many would have died if had a severe flu season instead of Covid-19?
Relative to the total U.S. population of about 323 million, 500,000 deaths represents only 0.15% of the population. If you do a similar calculation for Covid-19 deaths count for the entire world (2,499,445 source), then it comes out at 0.03% (World population: 7.8 billion). Does this not suggest that the U.S. death count is quite inflated? Or does it mean the death count for other countries is seriously underreported? Probably, the correct answer is a mix of both.
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