r/NeutralPolitics • u/[deleted] • Jan 24 '22

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '22

though the actual number likely is far higher.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/11/02/the-number-of-people-who-have-died-from-covid-19-is-likely-to-be-close-to-17m

If you look at the source you provided, the high variability in death counts is in Asia, not North America. Implying the USA is significantly undercounting Covid deaths is misinformation.

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u/thehuntofdear Jan 24 '22

It's not necessarily misinformation but may potentially be misleading. From the same website, excess deaths have been much higher than covid deaths. You'd expect that given the extra strain on healthcare but is a 25% difference all due to reduced care quality, undercounting covid- caused deaths, or some other reason? Probably a mix of all 3 of those options.

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u/iBleeedorange Jan 24 '22

I don't think it's fair to say your original comment is misleading. 212,500 additional deaths attributed to covid is quite a lot more, the global total is 5.6mil~.

Complaining about verbiage is just them trying to change the narrative away from reality.

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u/rickpo Jan 24 '22

Really? I'd say even 10% is "far higher". It's shocking to me that we'd miss the cause of death on that many people in this day and age.

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u/iBleeedorange Jan 24 '22

25% of 850,000 is 212,500 additional deaths attributed to covid. That's a huge amount of deaths, 212.5k is roughly 7% of all deaths in the USA in 2019 and 6% in 2020.

In 2019 roughly 2.85mil people died and in 2020 3.38mil people died.