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As states ramp up their reopenings, some are coming under criticism for making public misleading statistics or concealing information related to the coronavirus outbreak.
While the U.S. has reported more cases and deaths than any other country, the method for counting COVID-19 deaths varies by state. In testimony before the Senate earlier this month, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, said the actual number of people who've died as a result of the pandemic is "almost certainly" higher than what's been counted.
Such data has been the basis for how quickly states are beginning to open up and return to a sense of normalcy. But government officials in a number of states are facing questions about how open and honest they're being about how the virus is impacting their state.
"Accurate, complete and timely information is the best way to understand, respond to and limit the impact of the virus on both health and the economy," Dr. Tom Frieden, who ran the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under former President Barack Obama, told NBC News.
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MyOwnPeace
(16,928 posts)a competent leader of our country.......
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,862 posts)Often a death certificate will list three or four or even more things.
And most people aren't directly dying of this specific virus, but from something else that the virus triggered or made worse.
What can be looked at is the excess deaths in a given period of time, and assign most of them right now to Covid-19. It's not completely accurate -- there will never be a completely accurate count -- but it's a reasonable proxy.
100 years on, experts still offer a very wide range of numbers as to how many died in the 1918 flu epidemic.