US Politics Thread - Post Mueller Edition

[Albert_Thurgood]

I made a mistake, it wasn’t NYT but the Washington Post who did the study.

You may have missed my post about this but it is there in the Covid facts thread:

@Albert_Thurgood

Over the last couple of weeks, the US is getting about the same number of cases (over 20,000/day) but the official number of deaths has declined. Many think this is because covid deaths are not being recorded.

As Trump says, if you don’t test you don’t have cases.

The Washington post investigated this and estimated that official figures are probably underestimating actual covid deaths by 40%.

But this was a couple of weeks ago, so the unofficial death rate is probably much higher now.

Source:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/05/02/excess-deaths-during-covid-19/?arc404=true