This is strongly reminiscent of <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nidhiprakash/coronavirus-update-dead-covid19-doctors-hospitals" rel="nofollow">https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nidhiprakash/coronaviru...</a> that anecdotally reported that COVID deaths are being severely underreported in the USA because doctors were told to only test if it would change the care given because tests were in short supply. But that means that if the person goes on to die, they are not actually counted as a case.
But still vastly over reacted.<p>A pneumonia death as just far more spectacular than a normal flu death. Look at the Italy numbers eg. with about 18.000 COVID-19 deaths this season, which is much lower than a typical flu season of about 25.000. Or look at a bad flu year like 2014 with 54.000 flu deaths. With an IFR of 1%.<p>That's far higher than with this Corona virus. The COVID-19 IFR is below 1%. So what do we wreck our economy for? Flatten the curve, OK. But not much more than for 5 weeks.<p><a href="https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(19)30328-5/fulltext" rel="nofollow">https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(19)30328-5/ful...</a>
Fascinating that China’s accounting was vilified every day for weeks and how western media will probably do little better than rote state stenography and rationalizations.<p>Such freedom, we will have years of COVID trutherism to look forward to.