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For an organization who one would think care deeply about science, I'd say statements like this is problematic. "With the nation’s death toll now exceeding 215,000, the coronavirus has killed more people in the United States than anywhere else." It's problematic because it's not very clear how this number has been calculated. CDC themselves say this about their own number: "For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only…
Covid-19: At least two thirds of 225 000 excess deaths in US were due to virus (from march to july) https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m3948 > it has many errorneous statements You used the word "many", do you have any more examples?
"Healthcare disruption and emotional crises may have led to around a third of the 225,530 “excess deaths” in the United States between March 1 and August 1, 2020, a new study suggests."
Is it likely that 215,000 died from coronavirus, like Nature said? I'd like to see the math behind that.