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Originally Posted by PhilT2
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This source is pretty much on the left of politics.
Which means that it will report in such a way as to make the US look bad.
I seriously doubt its positioning takes into account infection rate, hospitalisations, and deaths - per capita
It is getting insane trying to understand real numbers here (US).
Deaths are overstated, better testing means an increase in reported infection rate (as it picks asymptomatic and minor).
Reported hospitalisations, or Intubations are the only reliable measure - and these figures are not easily available by state - I say by state, because with 300,000 population, and different cultural, social, economic structures the figures need to be separated out to see change (To see my point look at the world figures, and tray to apply that to any one country).
But honestly, I would not trust any US media outlets on their own. To be honest FOX is one of the few national channels that have news programming that will acknowledge there are two sides to a story. (They even have a real lefty commentator among their miriad of right wing opinion hosts)
My best solution so far is to contrast Covid and Politics from ABC(US) and FOX
And catch any other stories from BBC.
I do not trust Politico (on its own).