I'd expect the amount of critical stay-away to vary between countries; as above, I expect the UK to be an extreme case due to both the government's messaging an

I'd expect the amount of critical stay-away to vary between countries; as above, I expect the UK to be an extreme case due to both the government's messaging and the NHS's general position in society. In Sweden people were not told to avoid hospitals, as far as I know, so that doesn't show much. Certainly some people did out of fear if they weren't too sick, but hopefully they'll avoid the UK situation. For Belgium I don't know what they did, I haven't looked, but if all excess death is really being reported as COVID related then I suspect over-counting of COVID cases rather than undercounting; something that is already clearly happening in many places e.g. New York and Germany.