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Extent of Covid-19 Deaths Failed to Be Captured by Most Countries
Most people here don't want to hear this, but it's highly likely that WuFlu deaths are being under-counted in almost every country:

Obviously some countries are vastly underreporting cases. China, India, Mexico, etc.

However in the case of Western Europe, claims that there is significant underreporting are dubious, and in the US, if there is error at all, it is more likely we are over-reporting deaths d/t CV19.

Regardless, the Wall Street Journal's source for this whole thesis is apparently an engineer ... not a team of healthcare workers, not coroners from the hardest hit locales, not multiple epidemiologists, not the CV19 Taskforce, but rather an engineer.

Correspondently the statement "determining what caused a death can prove difficult" is ill-informed and misleading at best. Perhaps if an engineer is the diagnostician, such determination is difficult. For healthcare workers though, fever and respiratory failure are a damn fine hint as to CV19 case fatality.

The fact Lauren Gardner designed a CV19 web tally board, makes her no more qualified to determine likely cause of death or CFR or capacity of diagnosticians than a PhD who who designs ventilators. Did that not occur to the WSJ author, or his editor?

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Lauren Gardner, a Johns Hopkins University associate engineering professor who leads the team that built the school's widely cited Covid-19 tracker, believes countries including the U.S. and China have broadly undercounted cases and deaths. She cited Belgium as among the rare places where the number of Covid-19-related deaths has closely tracked this year's surge in excess mortality.

During a pandemic, determining what caused a death can prove difficult—especially so with Covid-19, since many people who have died also suffered from other serious conditions.