Keep in mind that the graduate students in Gardner’s lab never really went out and counted the number of Covid-19 deaths directly themselves. Come up with a very clear and transparent definition of a Covid-19 death. And now we come to a big reason why there haven’t been more accurate Covid-19 death counts: conspiracy theories. This wouldn’t change the fact that the Covid-19 death count in the U.S. has already gone well beyond the “not a big deal” level. The U.S. has about 4.25% of the world’s population yet accounts for a fifth of the approximately one million reported worldwide Covid-19 deaths.

Source: Forbes September 27, 2020 20:00 UTC