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Belgium On your own initiative ( partially paid back): - 9.6€ for the Covid test - 17 € for the doctor visit By Government: - fully paid back by our health

Belgium On your own initiative ( partially paid back): - 9.6€ for the Covid test - 17 € for the doctor visit By Government: - fully paid back by our health care, including doctor visit I love transparent pricing :)

mardifoufs 6y ago
But the highest COVID death rate in the western world! You gain some, you lose some I guess :)
- DonaldFisk 6y ago
  Different countries have different methods of counting. In Belgium, suspected cases in care homes are included in the figures, without any testing being done (https://www.euronews.com/2020/04/22/analysis-can-we-trust-belgium-s-covid-19-death-statistics https://www.euronews.com/2020/04/22/analysis-can-we-trust-be...), so the official figures are an overestimate. In the UK, there are two different figures published. The headline figure is for confirmed deaths (i.e. with COVID-19 being listed as the cause of death on death certificates), but the Office of National Statistics less frequently publishes excess deaths (i.e. compared to previous years). The Belgian per capita suspected death count, which is probably similar to its excess death count, does exceed the UK confirmed death count but is well below the UK excess death count. The per capita figure in https://multimedia.tijd.be/oversterfte/ https://multimedia.tijd.be/oversterfte/ for VK (United Kingdom) is for confirmed deaths (62.2 per 100,000). In mid June, the total figure was at 42,000, while excess deaths totalled 65,000, so that would make UK excess deaths 96.3 per 100,000, significantly higher than the Belgian suspected figure of 84.4 per 100,000.
- ashayh 6y ago
  Can't really compare all of US to a single EU country and maybe vice versa. NY has ~19M people, death per 1M ~1700 Belgium has ~11M people, death per 1M ~840 The US has 5 states with a far higher death rate than Belgium: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ So far.
- NicoJuicy 6y ago
  That's a non-issue. Belgium counts any suspected Covid death as a confirmed one, so we have approx. 2* as much deaths in statistics. It's mentioned a lot, but I guess not everyone knows ;)

mardifoufs 6y ago

But the highest COVID death rate in the western world! You gain some, you lose some I guess :)

DonaldFisk 6y ago
Different countries have different methods of counting. In Belgium, suspected cases in care homes are included in the figures, without any testing being done (https://www.euronews.com/2020/04/22/analysis-can-we-trust-belgium-s-covid-19-death-statistics https://www.euronews.com/2020/04/22/analysis-can-we-trust-be...), so the official figures are an overestimate. In the UK, there are two different figures published. The headline figure is for confirmed deaths (i.e. with COVID-19 being listed as the cause of death on death certificates), but the Office of National Statistics less frequently publishes excess deaths (i.e. compared to previous years). The Belgian per capita suspected death count, which is probably similar to its excess death count, does exceed the UK confirmed death count but is well below the UK excess death count. The per capita figure in https://multimedia.tijd.be/oversterfte/ https://multimedia.tijd.be/oversterfte/ for VK (United Kingdom) is for confirmed deaths (62.2 per 100,000). In mid June, the total figure was at 42,000, while excess deaths totalled 65,000, so that would make UK excess deaths 96.3 per 100,000, significantly higher than the Belgian suspected figure of 84.4 per 100,000.
ashayh 6y ago
Can't really compare all of US to a single EU country and maybe vice versa. NY has ~19M people, death per 1M ~1700 Belgium has ~11M people, death per 1M ~840 The US has 5 states with a far higher death rate than Belgium: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ So far.
NicoJuicy 6y ago
That's a non-issue. Belgium counts any suspected Covid death as a confirmed one, so we have approx. 2* as much deaths in statistics. It's mentioned a lot, but I guess not everyone knows ;)