Depends on how a Covid death is defined around the globe doesn't it? World meters shows just over 5 million. They appear to take the gov figure for each country.
This is all getting me down more than usual. I haven’t seen my daughter for almost two years, and, after being very cautious and having had our boosters and flu jabs, had tentatively invited her and husband to come for Christmas. Now we don’t know what to do. So depressing.
According to that table, China had 4636 dead. I would sooner believe the mobile phone users statistics. According to Bloomberg, China lost around 21 million phone subscribers during 2020.
You had to monitor that site from the start to really understand the Chinese figures (not). When Wuhan 'erupted', the Chinese number flew up to 85,000 cases - and then lo and behold, over the ensuing months that number has crept up to being just under 100,000 now. 15,000 cases in a population over a billion.
Either they are all being locked down really effectively, or they have another unknown method of controlling the virus. I've not heard one reporter ask the question as to how a country the size of China has managed the virus so well.
I think we also need to accept that not all countries are honest about their figures.
But it's also about how countries collect mortality figures. Working for charities in south east Asia and working in rural villages, I was in places where hardly anyone had contact with a doctor or health centre, partly because there were not many around and partly because residents would have to pay for any health services. So when people died there was no a doctor involved anywhere along the line. Establishing a vaguely accurate cause of death where there has been no medical intervention or record through a life - I can't imagine how that works. Even registering all deaths formally would have been a problem. The rural population put many deaths down to the anger of ghosts or vindictive curses from neighbours and this suffused the culture and animist religion.
Trying to get decent health stats for a country is hard enough, even when it's acting in good faith, but trying to correlate it globally seems like supporting a charade. You surely need a well developed national health infrastructure to begin to collect this kind of data.
'Excess death' measurements seem to be most useful for covid, I would imagine, as it doesn't depends on testing or definitions of what counts as a death by covid. But even this can be manipulated, I would guess. With the best will in the world, you're just never going to get the vaguely real stats from the favelas of Rio, the slums of Haiti or camps in Sudan.
@Ergates, don't let it get you down. Personally, I would keep to your original plan to invite your daughter and her husband. if it makes you feel safer you could always all isolate for a week or so beforehand and take lateral flow tests before meeting up. We've all got to try to keep to a normal life as far as possible, otherwise everybody suffers. Ignore the doom-mongers in the media, remember bad news sells = more profits.
Even in the UK, the Covid death rates given on news bulletins daily are always prefaced by "deaths reported within 28 days of a person being tested positive for Covid ". There doesn't appear to be anything to categorically state that Covid was the actual cause of death in every case as opposed to being simply a contributory factor. Whilst I follow all the advice , I should add that I don't look too far into the Covid statistics so I could have misunderstood somewhere along the line. Over to you @punkdoc for any clarification if you'd be so kind.
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Over to you @punkdoc for any clarification if you'd be so kind.
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