Den stora frågan på allas läppar är väl ändå: Hur kan Ryssland ha så många smittofall men så få dödsfall?! Föga förvånande att det är just Ryssland som har den typen av statistik dock. :P
Russia’s government has boasted of a low coronavirus mortality rate, but figures from an obscure city agency cast doubt on those claims.
www.nytimes.com
Kanske bakom betalvägg, så lite sammanfattning:
"Ever since the
coronavirus took hold globally, researchers have been puzzled by Russia’s mortality rate of only about 13 deaths per million, far below the world average of 36 in a country with an
underfunded health system.
With the arrival of data for April, however, the mystery appears to be clearing up.
Data released by Moscow’s city government on Friday shows that the number of overall registered deaths in the Russian capital in April exceeded the five-year average for the same period by more than 1,700. That total is far higher than the official Covid-19 death count of 642 — an indication of significant underreporting by the authorities."
"Over all, about 70 percent of coronavirus-related deaths have not been reported in Moscow and about 80 percent in the country’s regions, said Aleksei I. Raksha, an independent demographer in Moscow. He was among the first to spot the April data, buried in an obscure government statistics website, as he has been
studying mortality rates in the Russian capital and the country’s regions and comparing them with official death tolls.
The lower numbers, according to Mr. Raksha, can be attributed to the way that causes of death are registered in Russia.
“For most deaths, the registered cause will be the disease of the organ that directly caused it,” he said in an interview. “This is the way the system has worked for a long time,” he said, adding that he believes it is highly likely that the authorities at some level are manipulating this system to yield the result they want."
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