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Not just Italy: "excess mortality" is being looked at for every country: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/04/16/tracking-covid-19-excess-deaths-acr

Not just Italy: "excess mortality" is being looked at for every country: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/04/16/tracking-covid-19-excess-deaths-across-countries https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/04/16/tracking... It's widely regarded as the gold standard, but usually not available weeks or months later. And while it is very reliable, it is somewhat less precise, and therefore not useful to gain a nuanced picture of the disease's impact when there are few deaths.

odkamkfn 6y ago
Excess mortality is not at all reliable for figuring out covid-19 deaths. The most obvious confounders are the effects of the various responses to the virus as well as global fear and panic.
rsynnott 6y ago
It’s also extremely slow. Most places are very slow in reporting normal death, ie those from non-notifiable causes. This is very visible in the euromomo data.