It's just a coincidence

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The CDC disagrees with you: https://macdailynews.com/2020/05/26/new-cdc-estimate-puts-covid-19-death-rate-at-0-26/

And it's not like it's politically advantageous for them to admit it was so grossly overestimated in the beginning.

[–]butterferret12 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

According to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ , there have been about 400,000 deaths from coronavirus. The NYT article they cited said that they expected closer to 100-200,000 people to die, which means that they far underestimated how many people will die.

This isn't even to mention that your link talks about past projections, not actual numbers. Even if we were to incorporate the 100,000 false deaths they spoke about, that would still be upwards of 7-8%.

As a side note, people dying of pre-existing issues or even negligence as a result of corona are still dying of corona. If they would not have died otherwise, they have died because if corona.