It’s 19 months into the pandemic, and the United States has reached another morbid milestone: 1 in 500 American residents has died from COVID-19 since the country’s first reported infection.
As of Tuesday evening, the US had recorded more than 663,000 COVID deaths according to data from the John Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. The 2020 census count of 331.4 million residents puts the country’s death toll right at 0.2 percent of the total population, or 1 in 500.
Oh good. Let's use the purposefully-inflated numbers which ignore co-morbidities to frighten the population into accepting more restrictions. Sadly, that is very much what passed for 'popular science'these days.
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It’s 19 months into the pandemic, and the United States has reached another morbid milestone: 1 in 500 American residents has died from COVID-19 since the country’s first reported infection.
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As of Tuesday evening, the US had recorded more than 663,000 COVID deaths according to data from the John Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. The 2020 census count of 331.4 million residents puts the country’s death toll right at 0.2 percent of the total population, or 1 in 500.
Oh good. Let's use the purposefully-inflated numbers which ignore co-morbidities to frighten the population into accepting more restrictions.
Sadly, that is very much what passed for 'popular science'these days.
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