has spread around the world, people have become grimly familiar with the death tolls that their governments publish each day. Unfortunately, the total number of fatalities caused by the pandemic may be even higher, for several reasons. First, the official statistics in many countries exclude victims who did not test positive for coronavirus before dying—which can be a substantial majority in places with little capacity for testing.
Many Western countries, and a handful of nations and regions elsewhere, regularly publish data on deaths from all causes. The table below shows that, in most places, the number of excess deaths is greater than the number of covid-19 fatalities officially recorded by the government., a network of epidemiologists who collect weekly reports on deaths from all causes in 24 European countries, covering 290m people.
In March and April, as big cities on America’s east coast were hit hard by the pandemic, most other states locked down quickly enough to prevent major outbreaks. But throughout the rest of 2020 mortality has remained above its usual rate across much of the country. As a result, America now has a higher rate of excess deaths per 100,000 people than most western European countries, where covid-19 fatalities fell sharply during the summer.
At the same time that covid-19 was devastating New York, cities in western Europe were also suffering severe outbreaks. Britain, Spain, Italy and Belgium have some of the highest national excess-death rates in the world, after adjusting for the size of their populations. France and Portugal locked down comparatively early, given the number of positive tests at the time, and endured lower death rates in the first wave.
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Here in Brazil, even people who died in car crash, went to Covid statistics...
The official COVID deaths plus excess deaths in the US is over 1 million. 😢
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