Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   Look at the rate of testing Date:   5/10/2021 9:47:06 AM (updated 5/10/2021 9:57:02 AM)

The is is the problem with cherry picking information from these charts to make an argument.  The rate of testing in the U.S. per million in population is 6 times higher than India (1.377M versus 217K).  Think about that, we have tested close to 1.4M for every 1M in population and India is a paltry 217K per million.   If you assume similar infection infection rates in India that would make the total number of cases around 140 million, not the 22M in this chart, which is probably not far from the actual number of cases.  The numbers in India are a joke and CRD's raising of eyebrows is an understatement.

As for the actual deaths from COVID in this study, I would like to see them apply their statistics and all the gross assumptions to the number of cases.  I am betting their methodology would result in a shockingly high number of cases in the U.S.  And I would also point out that there is zero chance they only used deaths from the virus.  No one has that number and the most reasonable estimates I've seen put it at less than 10%.  Even the most conservative estimate of excess deaths from the virus in the U.S. in 2020 is around 375,000 (from the CDC).  Quote from the CDC study on the death rate in 2020 (my emphasis added).  "COVID-19 was reported as the underlying cause of death or a contributing cause of death for an estimated 377,883 (11.3%) of those deaths (91.5 deaths per 100,000)."  So you see that even including "a contributing cause", which essentially means they had the virus when they died, the number is only 66% of the virus deaths included in the chart.  When you whittle that down to the "underlying cause of death" it becomes a fraction of the total listed in the chart.