Lab confirmed. Click into the links in the OP
That would way under-report cases
Yes it would. It does with any disease. But what isn't confirmed, can't be reported can it?
So, the real question is, how much of this is an agenda driven hyping?
Zero. Zilch. Nada.
In the OP, Barbara J. Martin MD took the lab-confirmed stats from WHO and charted them on a graph. There is no agenda driven hyping by her or in the data released by WHO.
Think about it. What is the alternative? Don't give physicians and others a heads up to what lab-confirmed cases are showing because only a fraction of cases can be confirmed? Don't bother testing at all?
OTOH, though 'not reported', individual cases are regularly being treated on a 'presumed' basis; and if any of those die, they ARE tested AND reported.
Therefore, deaths continue to be confirmed, presumed cases don't; that skews the mortality rate, in that 'confirmed cases' barely increase, while the number of 'confirmed deaths' continues to climb disproportionately.