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Coronavirus numbers miss some deaths, experts warn. Here’s why
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Directly and indirectly, the novel coronavirus is killing more people than are showing up in official statistics, epidemiologists warn.
Part of the problem is related to how deaths are accounted for, they say. Some deaths, like a healthy person who dies in a traffic accident, are simple to classify, and others, like someone with serious health issues who dies with the coronavirus, are not. “When somebody dies, it should be straightforward in terms of assigning the cause of their death,” says University of Toronto epidemiologist Ashleigh Tuite. “But it actually can be kind of complicated.” “You can have somebody with an underlying condition who dies, and they have a COVID infection, the question is: did they die of COVID, or did they die of
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COVID-19
United States
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Cases: 46 252 513
Deaths: 750 423
Recovered: 0
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India
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Cases: 34 321 025
Deaths: 459 652
Recovered: 0
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Brazil
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Cases: 21 835 785
Deaths: 608 235
Recovered: 0
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United Kingdom
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Cases: 9 215 683
Deaths: 141 607
Recovered: 0
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Russia
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Cases: 8 494 589
Deaths: 237 619
Recovered: 0
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