review that were added on by Gretch's cadre to the week's numbers in the week before the election. They were not initially included because no one thought that they met criteria for COVID at the time. Gretch's reviewers decided that they knew more than the doctors caring for the patient.
The virus is a real threat to elderly and sick people.....people who sit on the brink for the most part. But the numbers in the US are absolutely inflated. The media chooses to take the cases based on all cases called COVID - both lab test confirmed and unconfirmed.
Take away the "COVID unpsecified" diagnosis that doesn't require a lab confirmation, and we'd have the same results as everywhere else. In fact, to think the virus spreads differently here is quite unscientific.