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Antibody test study indicates official figures might be reporting only 2 percent of cases.
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<blockquote data-quote="Halbhh" data-source="post: 74908843" data-attributes="member: 375234"><p>Grabbing something off the top of the search results just now, this looks like a good-enough summary of the failure to count fully for the official deaths:</p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Official COVID-19 death toll estimates are bad enough. Thus far, the U.S. has lost more than 34,000 people to COVID-19. Worldwide the number is approaching 150,000. But, governments around the world have been <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/coronavirus-death-toll-americans-are-almost-certainly-dying-of-covid-19-but-being-left-out-of-the-official-count/2020/04/05/71d67982-747e-11ea-87da-77a8136c1a6d_story.html" target="_blank">underreporting</a> deaths.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>In the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), state, county, and municipal authorities <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-strikes-at-least-2-100-nursing-homes-across-u-s-killing-2-000-residents-11586554096" target="_blank">report</a> cases and deaths in which the presence of the novel coronavirus is confirmed in a laboratory test. However, many people who died and had COVID-19 symptoms - at home, in a nursing home, or a long-term care facility - are not being tested.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>This problem is magnified in the country’s epicenter, New York City. City officials say they currently don’t have the testing capacity to include large numbers of people dying in their homes. An <a href="https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/?ref=hvper.com&utm_source=hvper.com&utm_medium=website" target="_blank">estimated</a> 180-195 people per day may be dying in their homes from COVID-19 in New York City, and go uncounted as victims of the coronavirus as they haven’t gotten a laboratory test confirmation.</em></p><p><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2020/04/14/underreporting-of-covid-19-deaths-in-the-us-and-europe/#4c71aa6c82d7" target="_blank">Underreporting Of COVID-19 Coronavirus Deaths In The U.S. And Europe (Update)</a></p><p></p><p>Of course, you can probably get dozens of articles like this, to any level of detail you like.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Halbhh, post: 74908843, member: 375234"] Grabbing something off the top of the search results just now, this looks like a good-enough summary of the failure to count fully for the official deaths: [I] Official COVID-19 death toll estimates are bad enough. Thus far, the U.S. has lost more than 34,000 people to COVID-19. Worldwide the number is approaching 150,000. But, governments around the world have been [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/coronavirus-death-toll-americans-are-almost-certainly-dying-of-covid-19-but-being-left-out-of-the-official-count/2020/04/05/71d67982-747e-11ea-87da-77a8136c1a6d_story.html']underreporting[/URL] deaths. In the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), state, county, and municipal authorities [URL='https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-strikes-at-least-2-100-nursing-homes-across-u-s-killing-2-000-residents-11586554096']report[/URL] cases and deaths in which the presence of the novel coronavirus is confirmed in a laboratory test. However, many people who died and had COVID-19 symptoms - at home, in a nursing home, or a long-term care facility - are not being tested. This problem is magnified in the country’s epicenter, New York City. City officials say they currently don’t have the testing capacity to include large numbers of people dying in their homes. An [URL='https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/?ref=hvper.com&utm_source=hvper.com&utm_medium=website']estimated[/URL] 180-195 people per day may be dying in their homes from COVID-19 in New York City, and go uncounted as victims of the coronavirus as they haven’t gotten a laboratory test confirmation.[/I] [URL="https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2020/04/14/underreporting-of-covid-19-deaths-in-the-us-and-europe/#4c71aa6c82d7"]Underreporting Of COVID-19 Coronavirus Deaths In The U.S. And Europe (Update)[/URL] Of course, you can probably get dozens of articles like this, to any level of detail you like. [/QUOTE]
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