We can reasonably exclude reporting differences now between most European countries, but remember at the beginning of the pandemic when some places were much worse off just because of how they reported deaths?
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And if you're going to try and compare, say, India and Italy, before you start talking about vitamin D or something you should FIRST exclude the quite likely possibility that they just report/record stuff differently
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This, a thousand times this.
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Yes! In Brazil's case, testing is very irregular, and varies wildly by state, so any comparison comes with its own bunch of caveats.
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Reporting-based difference would be a constant, though, which would mean that their rates of change would still be comparable, wouldn't they?
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Not really. Reporting can vary quite dramatically if, say, it is based on something that itself varies (i.e. testing rates)
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Underreporting in México is so big that total excess mortality is more than double the amount of reported COVID deaths. And govt. Authorities still say that diabetes, obesity and personal irresponsibility is the main reason there are so many deaths.
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In general. But in some cases (say NZ vs USA), I'm willing to bet reporting differences are not the major factor.
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People think they can pick Covid deaths per capita and call it a day. When you see someone justifying Brazil (or Sweden), that's ALWAYS their rebuttal: "but deaths per capita".
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