<div dir="ltr">John, a serious question, what is the point of constantly posting updated US numbers here?  Even if we suppose the IFR is close to the flu, there are still unfortunately going to be some deaths here.  <div><br></div><div>Although you'll probably again label me a Trump supporter, I'd also point out that US hospitals are incentivized financially to report CV-19 deaths instead of other causes.   NY is particularly incentivized under their reporting system:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/24/fact-check-medicare-hospitals-paid-more-covid-19-patients-coronavirus/3000638001/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/24/fact-check-medicare-hospitals-paid-more-covid-19-patients-coronavirus/3000638001/</a>  <br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 1:33 PM John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 11:45 AM John Clark <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><br></font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>My figure on the number of deaths in the USA badly needs upgrading because it was made way back in the olden days of 3 hours ago, the old number was 74,810, the new number is 74,962 deaths.</font></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">And that number is also wrong because its 33 minutes old, the new figure is 75,490 deaths.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div></div></div>
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