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U.S. COVID-19 Death Toll Is Inflated | RealClearPolitics Covid Usa Deaths Total

Allow, meet again, on occasion will bring something covid usa deaths total U.S. COVID-19 Death Toll Is Inflated | RealClearPolitics see in full The latest Centers for Disease Control data show that the COVID-19 fatality rate is . When the CDC projected : “Georgia leads the race to become America’s No. 1 Death Destination.” The CDC currently puts the number of confirmed deaths at about 100,000. But even the “best estimate” 0.26% fatality rate is a significant overestimate because of how the CDC is counting deaths. The actual rate is fairly close to a recent bad year for the seasonal flu. And though public health officials have been transparent about how they are counting coronavirus deaths, the implications for calculating the infection fatality rate are not appreciated. “The case definition is very simplistic,” Dr. Ngozi Ezike, director of Illinois Department of Public Health, . “It means, at the time of death, it was a COVID positive diagnosis. That means, that if you were in ...