It's easy to see what one wants to see and be blind to it all. Good idea to read the entire article.

The source of the numbers is the CDC not Newsweek.

How do you explain starting the count for Biden almost two months before Biden was in office? Biden wasn't in office on Dec. 19th. He wasn't inaugurated until January 20th of 2021.

Below is from the same Newsweek article----
The inauguration of Biden marked the point at which his administration began implementing its own strategy to contain the virus.

Though some have argued that Biden's "real" count has to start two to three weeks later due to some cases being passed over from the previous administration, for the sake of simplicity we will choose January 20 as the dividing line.

On that day the cumulative U.S. COVID death count stood at 424,401, according to CDC data, meaning that fewer people have died under Biden—379,192 in total (up to December 19).

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