[arthurus]

There is a pretty heavy incentive to inflate the figures.Hospitals get money from the FedGov for each admitted WuHanFlu patient and a multiple of that for each put on a ventilator. The second is particularly perverse because there is evidence that ventilators except in rare cases do more harm than good. Better for most is pure O2 or intravenous oxygenation. It is also incentive to refuse early usẹ (which is most effective) of H-quine/Zpack as that doesn't bring much money and doesn't make as much as the Ventilators or the Rem-vir.

[gibsonguy]

so does the belief by some that it is exaggerated”

Because it is.