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Yes. Even counting the deaths is tricky. Here's something from the UK explaining how the UK's Office for National Statistics counts deaths differently to the UK
by DanBC 7y ago
Yes. Even counting the deaths is tricky. Here's something from the UK explaining how the UK's Office for National Statistics counts deaths differently to the UK's Public Health England. (Both of them are counting deaths across the whole UK, despite the name of PHE).
https://blog.ons.gov.uk/2020/03/31/counting-deaths-involving-the-coronavirus-covid-19/ https://blog.ons.gov.uk/2020/03/31/counting-deaths-involving...
- mcv 7y agoI've also heard of one country counting unrelated heart attacks in people who happened to carry the Corona virus as Corona deaths, while another country (the US I think) often has no idea how to test Corona deaths and therefore doesn't count many deaths that may well have been caused by Corona. Comparisons between countries are utterly meaningless.