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And Belgium counted every possible related death as covid related. Overreporting 100%

• microtherion 6y ago
  Now that excess mortality figures are available for comparison, Belgium's reporting looks in line with e.g. France or Israel: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.27.21250604v2.full.pdf https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.27.21250604v... As in several other countries, Belgium's excess mortality was lower than the number of reported COVID deaths, but that's most likely because there was a lower number of flu deaths than usual.
• thebruce87m 6y ago
  https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-tracker https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-... Looks like we are now over-counting instead of undercounting as we were a few months ago. Well, maybe, since things like car crashes and suicides are down in most places so excess would be negative with lockdowns but without COVID.