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0rganism

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5. where is the 50000 number coming from?

Reply to Maraya1969 (Original post)

Tue May 12, 2020, 04:28 PM

May 2020

from what i've seen that's a pretty severe undercount (40%+)
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
worldometers showing over 83000 coronavirus deaths (the vast majority of which i'd attribute to the federal govt's shit response)

ETA: is this specifically deaths directly attributable to Trump's actions and inactions? pretty tricky filter to derive, i'd think.

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