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Journal Rick Schumann's Journal: Misleading Headlines: U.S. Coronavirus Deaths

So I'm reading through headlines from various sources and I see this:

U.S. coronavirus death toll rises above 100,000 in world's deadliest outbreak

..and immediately I think "That's clickbait if I ever saw it, and it's egregiously self-serving sensationalistic, lets find the real statistics", for which I find this news story with this graphic
..which of course tells the real tale: Only 210 deaths per million citizens.

Thanks, media, for leading people in the U.S. to believe things are orders of magnitude worse than they actually are, all so you make more money.

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Misleading Headlines: U.S. Coronavirus Deaths

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