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Belgium has this specifically for our country [0]. It has a 4 week lag, but they've started to include interim data in the weekly updates by the national bureau
by andruby 6y ago
Belgium has this specifically for our country [0]. It has a 4 week lag, but they've started to include interim data in the weekly updates by the national bureau for epidemics. The last weekly update included the "excess deaths" compared to previous years: [1]
Week Monday Observed Expected % Deaths
Deaths Deaths Excess Per 100K
2020-W11 09/03/2020 2,220 2,302 -3.6 19.4
2020-W12 16/03/2020 2,531 2,275 11.3 22.1
2020-W13 23/03/2020 3,116 2,249 38.5 27.3
In other words: in the last week of March, we had 38.5% more deaths than usual. Or 7 extra deaths per 100K inhabitants. That's terrifying.
Side note: Belgium is one of the only countries that includes deaths in carehomes and at home. The deaths in carehomes is almost half of all covid-19 deaths here.
[0] https://epistat.wiv-isp.be/momo/ https://epistat.wiv-isp.be/momo/
[1] https://epidemio.wiv-isp.be/ID/Documents/Covid19/COVID-19_Daily%20report_20200409%20-%20NL.pdf https://epidemio.wiv-isp.be/ID/Documents/Covid19/COVID-19_Da... (NL or FR only, sorry)