It's the difference between countries that are being factual (like Greece) and countries where the physicians are being pressured either politically or financially to inflate the number of COVID deaths.

In the US they're cooking the books to get that sweet guaranteed Federal money. The unintended consequence of that assistance cash is that it's massively inflating the numbers and politicians are using that as leverage to "keep us safe".

There is no bigger lie than "I'm from the government and I'm here to help".