The problem with 124,282 deaths number is that half of them were unnecessary. The northern Governors murdered 10s of thousands by putting active Covid patients in nursing homes.
Next, hospitals were throwing patients on respirators early for money. The death rate for normal respirator patients is around 40%. In New York the death rate was 88%. Fluid buildup from this virus made respirators twice as deadly. If respirators were the last resort, 1,000s would have been saved.
Finally, Orange Man Bad reaction to a perfectly fine HCQ, Z-Pac, and zinc prophylactic combination needlessly caused thousands of deaths. If used early and often the contagious and recovery time would have been cut by 2/3rds.
Governors, stupid political scientist, and greedy doctors/hospitals (extra money for respirators) caused half the death rate. This thing likely was no more than a bad flu if treated and contained properly.
RE: The problem with 124,282 deaths number is that half of them were unnecessary.
The other problem is HOW they count a death as Covid-19 death.
A death WITH Covid-19 positive diagnosis is considered a Covid-19 death even if the cause of death was something else.
Several states have had to revise their Covid-19 death counts DOWNWARDS after this.
We have also seen deaths unrelated to Covid-19 COUNTED AS Covid-19 deaths. I wonder how many such cases there are.
Also,how many REAL DEATHS DUE TO Covid-19 ( e.g. Covid-19 patients who died at home ) went uncounted?