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2025-02-27 18:29:11 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: A46A7366D346D41C64228CE935AF145DA6F0A4D9C9E2AD34C3DCD12DD3662E77
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This is misleading. The United States conducted the highest number of COVID-19 tests of any country in the world. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/full-list-total-tests-for-covid-19 There was a monetary incentive for US hospitals to report deaths as Covid even when the actual cause of death was not covid. https://www.c-span.org/clip/house-committee/user-clip-cdc-director-acknowledges-possible-inflation-in-covid-19-death-count/4897385
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