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There are far more deaths in Italy and France then statistics show... > On Tuesday night, the health authority in the Grand Est region said two-thirds of its 6
by chewz 7y ago
There are far more deaths in Italy and France then statistics show...
> On Tuesday night, the health authority in the Grand Est region said two-thirds of its 620 old people’s homes had been affected by the coronavirus pandemic and 570 residents had died.
> Those 570 people are not recorded in France’s official coronavirus death toll, which reached 4,032 on April 1, but so far counts only those who have died in hospital.
> In an Italian retirement home in Mediglia, outside Milan, 52 of the 152 elderly staying there had died from Covid-19 infection by last week.
> In the province of Bergamo, 2,060 deaths were attributed to the virus in March. However L’Eco di Bergamo, a local newspaper, found that a total of 5,400 deaths occurred in the province in March, up from just 900 in the same month in 2019.
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- DyslexicAtheist 7y agoI was under the impression that Italy did test for covid also post-mortem? there were claims here couple days back that this was the case (and a claim that apparently Germany didn't). if that's the case then how could the numbers be different?
- heurifk 7y agoPeople also die now for example because of a heart attack that cant be treated due to overwhelmed hospitals. Not saying that is the case for the numbers, I dont know. In London someone died of malaria last week because it took 9 hours for an ambulance to show up.
- DyslexicAtheist 7y agothanks, makes sense and wasn't considering this
- chewz 7y agoFrance today adjusted it's toll by 884 including deaths in nursing homes https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-toll/frances-coronavirus-death-toll-jumps-to-nearly-5400-as-nursing-homes-included-idUSKBN21K31I https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-france...