Have you read or heard anything about hospitals (who are bleeding funds) falsely recording deaths for extra money?
I've read a couple of things about it thrown out by right-wing sources but it's just assertion at this point, and not fact
but even if there's something to it, that isn't going to change the trends of the numbers I posted. (and for the record, I have no problem believing that some hospitals might cook the books a little)
You might be trying to argue a point I wasn't talking about. I know trump is gearing up to dispute the death numbers, and his supporters will jump on board quickly, but I was talking about ratio's, not raw totals
Or the antibodies tests from Stanford, USC, NY, and Florida all have infection rates 30-50 times more than reported?
IMO, those are not credible numbers because if there was any basis to those assertions, the mortality rate would be falling as out testing rate has quadrupled over the last month, but it has gone the opposite direction
besides all that, the notion that 40-65 million Americans have/had Covid is not anywhere close to believable.
* just for reference, it was one Stanford study that came up with those estimates and was actually speculated as being 50-80 times higher. The study has not been peer reviewed and the basis of the "findings" was a serology test that generates a high level of false positives
and, that study and a couple of others have been harshly criticized for a preconceived bias and poor methodology:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblo...ready-debunked-the-santa-clara-serology-study
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/04...irus-study-the-authors-owe-us-all-an-apology/