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I don't have HBO. Let me know which number they are using for fatalities - 8, 40, 400, 11,000 or 44,000. They've all been used by different people with different agendas, and none are really accurate because all of them are counted within varying constraints of time and space that selectively ignore the real world.
Not including someone's death because they died one day after you stopped counting, or because they lived one kilometer farther away than you were looking, or just on the other side of a border, or because they committed suicide instead of going through the full course of acute radiation syndrome, or their death came from a radioisotope your chosen detection instrument didn't detect, or the inclusion of their deaths would make the numbers too high to be politically palatable, or discussing their deaths would prompt people to look further into things you'd rather they avoid are all just ways and excuses to fudge the numbers to be what you want them to be.
Even the 44,000 doesn't include people across the border in Belarus who sheared the contaminated sheep and handled their contaminated wool months after the accident.
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