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In reply to the discussion: US Coronavirus deaths per day... [View all]csziggy
(34,142 posts)Since there have been an unknown number of cases that were never confirmed or reported and an equally known number of deaths that were not attributed to Covid19, that is the best that can be reported accurately.
Although the number of cases is most likely significantly higher than confirmed, the lack of testing means we may never know how many have had the virus or how many died from it. That's the same as the speculations about how many had the "Spanish" flu or died from it, or the reported deaths from the San Francisco earthquake and its aftermath.
Just recently there was an article in which deaths at the time of the Black Death in London were revised upwards as wills from that period were examined. Sorry, just did a search for it and can't find it.