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Originally Posted by tadd

Masrum:
It has long been said that the 'infected cases' is a very squishy number due to a whole host of noise variables like testing delays, Testing false negatives, chosen test population, etc.

The deaths number has some noise in it as well, BUT is prob is the cleanest number to follow. A I have stated, if you die from COVID, there are multiple orthogonal tests that have been preformed along the way. Is there some semantic issues on cause of death with a comorbitidy, possibly... but ravaged lungs in a X-ray along with a positive COVID test and a cytokine measurement is hard to fudge.

But if someone dies with CV19 symptoms/effects, but they haven't been tested, I suspect no one is going to count that as a CV19 death.