> Most of the countries in this list are known, based on the excess mortality data, to strongly undercount Covid deaths. I take great issue with the word *kno

> Most of the countries in this list are known, based on the excess mortality data, to strongly undercount Covid deaths. I take great issue with the word *known* up above. Somebody would need to do a deep dive into this data, but I'd say that this study is alarmingly starting with a premise that is not proven and may be completely false. If there are excess deaths in poor countries, are they likelier to come from Covid or economic devastation imposed by things like lockdowns, cutting off tourism income, and other economic restrictions? In rich countries, the average person was not close to not being able to acquire a meal at the start of Covid. In poor countries, even in good times being able to put food on the table is a real concern for average people, let alone after 2 years of super limited tourism and various lockdowns and economic restrictions that worsened many peoples' already precarious situations.