Thanks to the author for writing and you for posting a direct link to the "primary" SciAm source.
I was editing medical documents during a serious flu epidemic in the 20-oughts. I was of course entirely aware that it made a whole lot of people so ill they required hospitalization but a dearth of associated death reports was just good. They mostly got well and were discharged. From then to now I never connected the dots between what was going on in my little handful of hospitals and the national figures we all read.
Btw, I notice those greatly expanded CDC estimates are used in other SciAm articles, considered valid for their purposes. But like trying to compare a pickup bed of apples to a bag of oranges that even the comparatively simply augmented body counts some states are reporting would be.
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