The health ministry is generally being quite conservative, and this is only confirmed, properly documented deaths. More realistic death tolls are estimated over 200K
Unification in logic programming isn't a forwards-only process, so there's no reason to expect deduction in an AI to proceed in a sort of procedural step by step fashion either. What ultimately matters is that all of the various deductions unify coherently in the end.
If you add a "cheat" rule that lets you deduce anything from something else, then replacing these cheat rule applications with real subgoal proofs is denoising for Natural Deduction.
However after step 4 you might notice that you made a mistake in step 2 and revise it. You might think in steps, but the state you are building is formed a bit diffusion-like
Most people don't at 150wpm, the typically speaking speed, even agmonst technical people. For regular questions without that don't invovle precise syntax like in maths and programming, speech would be faster. Though reading the output would be faster than hearing it spoken
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