Public health experts are in agreement that the number of deaths in the coronavirus pandemic is being undercounted due to a lack of comprehensive testing. But that’s not stopping conservative media personalities such as Rush Limbaugh from continuing to insist that the death count is somehow being inflated in order to advance a political agenda.

The New York Times and The Washington Post both reported this past Sunday that the death count from COVID-19 is likely being seriously undercounted, as are total cases, due to a lack of testing capacity even in cases where a person had clearly shown symptoms. The Times explained that in epidemics such as coronavirus, “public health experts say that under typical circumstances it takes months or years to compile data that is as accurate as possible on deaths. The reporting system during an epidemic of this scale is particularly strained.”

The Post reported: