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Re: Coronavirus
Not sure if this article has been linked to but I found it interesting.
https://www.politico.eu/article/coro...vid-19-deaths/
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snippet... How to measure the real toll of the novel coronavirus has been a persistent question since the outbreak began.
There are a number of difficulties. Some countries test more per capita while others test less. And governments collect their statistics differently, making any cross-border comparisons — be it infections, recoveries, or deaths — inexact.
Researchers are narrowing in on a figure called "excess deaths" as a more reliable measure that can give insight into the true scale of the pandemic. The idea is to take the previous year's deaths as a baseline and use the difference in deaths this year over the last as a more accurate metric of the virus' impact. This way, researchers can capture fatalities that slipped through the cracks.
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