Quote Originally Posted by msstate7 View Post
NY is being hit hard... there's no doubt about that. Their death rate is inflated though. I won't even question whether the 3700 added deaths are legit. They added 3700 to the numerator, but added nothing to the denominator. Do you think if 3700 people died of covid19 without being tested that there were/are only 3700 untested, unconfirmed out there?
If you are going to use the Santa Clara test and apply it across the country like Hacker did above to come up with 380k deaths, that study suggests that almost all of NY has come into contact with the virus (50 to 80 times the number of confirmed cases). That would make NY death rate minuscule.