We can be confident there have been far more than 5 million global Covid deaths | David Spiegelhalter and Anthony Masters

Estimating ‘excess’ fatalities, a more robust analysis method, puts the pandemic’s grim toll between 10m and 19m people•Coronavirus – latest updates•See all our coronavirus coverage On 1 November,news organisations reported the global Covid-19 death toll had exceeded 5 million. But, as these articles highlight, this figure is likely to be a massive underestimate.Johns Hopkins University collates official daily statistics on Covid deaths, but there is no unified globaldefinition: Belgium ’s high reported death rate partly reflects its including all probable Covid deaths in all settings, while Hungary only publishes hospital deaths with a positive test.Turkmenistan and North Korea have,apparently, not experienced a single Covid death.Continue reading...
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