The following quote is from USA Today:
In Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, coroner Wavis Jordan said his office “doesn’t do COVID deaths.” Jordan does not investigate deaths himself. He requires families to provide proof of a positive coronavirus test before including it on a death certificate.
In 2021, he hasn’t pronounced a single person dead from COVID-19 in the 80,000-person county.
This sort of underreporting is most prevalent in the heavily Red (Republican) areas such as the South.
Experts estimate that the current US Death Statistics are probably off by as much as 20%.
At this moment, it's at 871K. If it's under by 20%, it'd be already over a MILLION deaths in two years.
Which makes the death rate at 1.385%, instead of 1.2% as it stands right now.
That makes it time to point out the raw number of deaths vs death rate.
Right now, the state with the most COVID deaths is California, followed by Texas and Florida.
However, that's raw numbers. What about deaths per population?
FWIW, the worst death rate is Mississippi (360 per 100K), followed by Arizona (352) and New Jersey (346).
California at 199 is well below Florida (297) and Texas (269).
Best? Hawaii, at 81. But remember, Hawaii requires either a negative test within 72 hours of arrival or spending 5 days in self-quarantine. And they can do that because they can check everybody at the airport. And if you choose to break quarantine anyway? You'd be subject to arrest.
Do you see any anti-vaxxers screaming about their "freedom" in Hawaii?
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