The Economist used global excess deaths to arrive at the true death toll from the pandemic with a 95% confidence interval.

"Although the official number of deaths caused by #COVID19 is now 7m, our single best estimate is that the actual toll is 27.5m people. We find that there is a 95% chance that the true value lies between 17.8m and 30.8m additional deaths."

#Covid #SarsCov2 #GlobalExcessDeaths

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-estimates

The pandemic’s true death toll

Our daily estimate of excess deaths around the world

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Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz, Dr. Drew Trigger Backlash With Coronavirus Comments

Dr. Phil McGraw is the latest celebrity doctor to trigger a backlash over comments made on the coronavirus, when, as a guest on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show, he compared coronavirus deaths …

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@Npars01 sure we do: it was Russia.
Why is Mitch McConnell blocking election security bills? Good question.

One likely reason: To avoid upsetting President Trump, who is particularly touchy on the subject of Russian election interference

The Washington Post

@Npars01 @Dhmspector

So many people who want what’s right for democracy in America still don’t understand the bigger picture. Eventually, this needs to be to absorbed more fully, to fortify us against the onslaught of propaganda, pushed hysterically from Kremlin and it’s surrogates here.

On MSNBC today, Ali Vitali referred to Turning Point USA—“the grassroots organization” Really?🤨 Next segment, Rachel Maddow with her book on Fascism in America. What’s very wrong with this picture? Anybody??

@lindamarie @Dhmspector

Turning Point USA is NOT "grass roots"

It's astroturf funded by GOP billionaires. It's a campus brown shirt extremist movement.

Like "Moms for Liberty" terrorizing school boards, Turning Point USA recruits young people to terrorize shoppers wearing masks, campus voters, & science teachers

Threats, & violence funded by #KochNetwork
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA

Bernard Marcus
Bruce Rauner
Darwin Deason
Richard Uihlein
Bradley
Koch's Donors Trust
Thomas W. Smith
Einhorn

Turning Point USA - Wikipedia

@Npars01 @Dhmspector

Exactly! To me, it was such a blatant mislabeling and a misleading statement—and it was live reporting on a prime time broadcast! That it was allowed to go unchallenged, uncorrected on Joy Reid was shocking. I see omissions as a regular problem. I started to watch MSNBC regularly on J 6, when I realized I didn’t know nearly enough about what’s going on. But they’re not committed to (or allowed to!) tell the whole story. I value your dedicated truth-telling, with receipts!