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Re:India’s second wave by NicoJuicy on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @07:06PM (#26896513)
And Belgium counted every possible related death as covid related.

Overreporting 100%

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Re:India’s second wave by microtherion on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @10:11PM (#26897956)
Now that excess mortality figures are available for comparison, Belgium's reporting looks in line with e.g. France or Israel:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.27.21250604v...

As in several other countries, Belgium's excess mortality was lower than the number of reported COVID deaths, but that's most likely because there was a lower number of flu deaths than usual.

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Re:India’s second wave by thebruce87m on Thursday April 22, 2021 @07:46PM (#26909499)
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-...

Looks like we are now over-counting instead of undercounting as we were a few months ago. Well, maybe, since things like car crashes and suicides are down in most places so excess would be negative with lockdowns but without COVID.

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