Researchers think undercounting goes beyond overloaded health systems to a lack of awareness of Covid and low levels of testing
  • duderium [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Good article but no mention of Biden or masking of course. When bad things happen in the USA, it’s anybody’s fault but Biden’s. The good news I guess is that excess deaths are trending downward globally (although is that because these fuckers changed the definition of “excess”?), but the impact from long covid is still severe and delayed.

    • da_gay_pussy_eatah [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Is that based on a calculation of excess deaths which includes an average of the trailing several years of mortality? Because that just sets the baseline to include covid deaths as the baseline