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Was die "tatsächlichen" Todeszahlen angeht, dazu auch ein sehr interessanter Artikel von der NY Times:
25,000 Missing Deaths: Tracking the True Toll of the Coronavirus Crisis

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At least 25,000 more people have died during the coronavirus pandemic over the last month than the official Covid-19 death counts report, a review of mortality data in 11 countries shows — providing a clearer, if still incomplete, picture of the toll of the crisis.
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“Whatever number is reported on a given day is going to be a gross underestimate,” said Tim Riffe, a demographer at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Germany. “In a lot of places the pandemic has been going on for long enough that there has been sufficient time for late death registrations to come in, giving us a more accurate picture of what the mortality really was.”
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In France, officials began including Covid-19 deaths outside hospitals in early April. And Britain’s Office for National Statistics has started to release mortality data that reflects when Covid-19 is mentioned on a death certificate, providing a more accurate — albeit delayed — account of the pandemic than the figures released each day by Public Health England.
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“Today’s rise in all-cause mortality takes place under conditions of extraordinary measures, such as social distancing, lockdowns, closed borders and increased medical care, at least some which have positive impacts,” said Vladimir Shkolnikov, a demographer at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. “It is likely that without these measures, the current death toll would be even higher.”
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Der Artikel enthält sehr viele Grafiken zu Todeszahlen im Zusammenhang mit Corona, aus etlichen verschiedenen Ländern, die man sich einmal ansehen sollte.