I think this is a very important point that has not gotten a lot of air time.https://twitter.com/CharlesCMann/status/1250135143773331458 …
Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him
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Tamar Haspel Retweeted Charles C. Mann
I think this is a very important point that has not gotten a lot of air time.https://twitter.com/CharlesCMann/status/1250135143773331458 …
Tamar Haspel added,
It's actually even worse than that. For many countries, yearly influenza deaths are estimated using statistical models as the excess mortality attributable to influenza, which is even less comparable to current COVID-19 death counts
Also AFAIK there is variation between countries on how COVID-19 deaths are counted. Not sure of how much exactly, but some do test the dead and some don't for example. Some count people who died at their homes and some don't. Some countries had lots of lag in reporting them etc.
I don't know how it is for influenza deaths, is there a similar heterogeneity in statistics between countries or not?
Absolutely. Every country reports things differently, the reporting systems are different etc
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