94% of countries have lower Covid-19 death rates than US

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34. I trust Cuomo's more than China, but even NY's numbers are underreported.

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Cuomo would be the first to admit that. As I point out in the OP, way more New Yorkers are dying in their homes than normal and they aren't being tested. In New York City, somewhere around 20-25 people die at home on a typical day. But according to City Council Member Mark Levine, who chairs the health committee, between 200 and 215 are dying at home every day at present. As Levine wrote on Twitter, only those “who are known to have a positive coronavirus test have the disease listed as the official cause on their death certificate.” Gothamist reports that the city Medical Examiner’s office “is not testing dead bodies for COVID-19. Instead, they’re referring suspected cases to the city’s health department as ‘probable.’” And those “probable” COVID-19 deaths aren’t included in the tallies. This is not a problem that’s unique to New York. BuzzFeed News reported that “medical professionals around the US [say] that the official numbers of people who have died of COVID-19 are not consistent with the number of deaths they’re seeing on the front lines.” https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/ten-times-as-many-new-yorkers-are-dying-in-their-homes-than-normal-and-they-arent-being-tested-for-covid-19/

When it comes to states like Florida and Texas, I trust their numbers less than Cuomo's.

The point is, everyone's numbers are underreported to some degree, some more than others. But the numbers given by international organizations are all we have to go by when comparing countries, so that is what we use. I am specifically using a source you cited for those numbers.

You still think we're "way down the list"?