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On today’s episode of COVID in 19, Avik Roy of FREOPP and Scott Immergut of Ricochet talk CDC conspiracy theories: are we overcounting or undercounting the number of COVID deaths in the US? And why has the CDC stopped recommending testing for people with no symptoms?
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Published in: Domestic Policy, Healthcare
@avikroy doesn’t do a good job of defining or interpreting the data in this podcast.
At one extreme, there are motorcycle accident deaths that are included in the CoViD-19 death totals.
Not every CoViD-19 death is as difficult to determine as the hypothetical examples that Avik described. Especially when you factor in severable variables:
There’s far more evidence to support the theory that CoViD-19 are overreported than Avik Roy lets on in this podcast. There’s no evidence that CoViD-19 deaths are being underreported.