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Re:Autopsy Findings and Venous Thromboembolism in Patients w... by seren on Friday May 08, 2020 @09:49AM (#23114823)
Look at the number of tests by millions of people.

France has a very very low test count per millions. Basically you can only be tested once you are hospitalized or in rather bad shape.

On the other hand Germany is testing much more generously.

Simply put the number of confirmed case cannot be compared between countries.

Likely France has about 4 times the number of German's case only unconfirmed.

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Re:Autopsy Findings and Venous Thromboembolism in Patients w... by pvaldes on Friday May 08, 2020 @11:54AM (#23116169)
Yep, is the same that I said before... they are missing lots of positives

The frivolous consequence is that France is in "7th position" and Germany in "6th". More serious consequences are that French could have a false sense of security at this moment, and that there is a lot of unknown and hidden damage being done in French lungs that could lead to a mortality increase in the future by "natural causes".

Are they trying to estimate this number?

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Re:Autopsy Findings and Venous Thromboembolism in Patients w... by seren on Friday May 08, 2020 @01:45PM (#23117434)
Yes, the number of confirmed case is well known as an underestimation. Some other data are gathered directly from GP, people in emergency room presenting Covid-19 symptoms or nursing home reports.

You can get some official data from there : https://dashboard.covid19.data.gouv.fr/

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