Yeah, 1.11 million dead Americans. Pretty bad.
this is plausible i suppose, pompeo is more anti-china than trump.
I went with a source you’re likely to trust, The NY Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testing.html
As reported by the NYT on August 29 in an article titled “Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive. Maybe It Shouldn’t Be“:
The PCR test amplifies genetic matter from the virus in cycles; the fewer cycles required, the greater the amount of virus, or viral load, in the sample. The greater the viral load, the more likely the patient is to be contagious.
This number of amplification cycles needed to find the virus, called the cycle threshold, is never included in the results sent to doctors and coronavirus patients, although it could tell them how infectious the patients are.
In three sets of testing data that include cycle thresholds, compiled by officials in Massachusetts, New York and Nevada, up to 90 percent of people testing positive carried barely any virus, a review by The Times found.
Up to 90 percent of “positive cases” barely contained a trace of virus. Virologists contacted by the NYT were “stunned.”
https://www.johnlocke.org/the-fog-of-covid-19-data-how-many-cases-arent-even-cases/