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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

It's well established that COVID-19 death tolls are undercounts. That's important for people to understand, and it's important for people to look at excess mortality data. There's no particular evidence that there's *more* undercounting in Florida, Georgia or Texas. — PolitiTweet.org

This is actually easy to parse out. There are good data sets that don’t require mixing and matching and which DO… https://t.co/hvgUVOrnTG

Posted May 29, 2020 Hibernated

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

To be honest, it's a bit of a red flag when people are use (highly politicized) FL, GA or TX to illustrate (often dubious) points about coronavirus data. Many other states opened on roughly the same timelines so better to look at the data in a more comprehensive way. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 29, 2020 Hibernated

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On the contrary, the New York Times's analysis would seem to suggest that Florida, Georgia and Texas are in the middle of the pack. They don't have particularly high excess mortality, although almost surely they have some uncounted deaths. https://t.co/iTbN9SNc1d https://t.co/jziNhBzgbJ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 29, 2020 Hibernated