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Jim Geraghty of National Review Online highlights new research related to misreporting of COVID-related deaths. The Economist’s analysts resolved the questions by choosing to looking at all deaths reported since the start of the pandemic, and comparing that figure to what the normal pre-pandemic death rate suggested it would be. The first observation is that the global death toll could be two to four times higher than the official numbers listed at sites like Worldometers. … … Perhaps most useful, the Economist statisticians contrasted the number of official reported deaths in a country or continent against the estimated excess deaths...
