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Comment by stateofnounion

> and then subtly shifting between deaths from Covid and deaths during a flu wave (so not caused by the flu?).

Newsflash, genius. They are counting every person that died with COVID (or even "presumed" positive) as a death from COVID-19. The actual number of people that were killed directly by COVID is not known, just like we don't measure, test, or track every single person that dies of flu each year. It's an estimate that's arrived at long after the fact by reviewing data.

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