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| sethnintendo said: Is Russia under reporting deaths because how can they have third highest infection rate yet have under 4k deaths? |
Deaths lag behind reported cases and Russia is still on a rising trend.
While incubation period (4.5) + onset to death (18.5) is 23 days on average, test results lag behind as well, so to get an idea of case fatality rate, comparing current reported deaths to total reported cases 15 days ago is a decent estimate to compare countries.
Russia, 1.7%
Turkey, 3.1%
Germany, 4.9%
India 6.1%
Iran 6.9%
USA, 7.2%
Canada, 9.5%
Brazil, 14.5%
Italy, 15.0%
UK, 16.6%
World average: 8.3%
Russia is definitely under reporting deaths, likely only counting covid19 positive deaths in hospitals.
Otherwise Russia would be testing so well that they only miss 1 out of 2 cases...
https://globalnews.ca/news/6942020/russia-coronavirus-death-toll/
The city of Moscow said on Wednesday it had ascribed the deaths of more than 60% of coronavirus patients in April to other causes as it defended what it said was the superior way it and Russia counted the number of people killed by the novel virus.
Moscow’s Department of Health acknowledged in a statement on Wednesday that the number of deaths in April, 11,846, had been 1,841 higher than the same month last year and almost triple the number of people registered as having died of the virus. But it flatly denied it had been dishonestly lowering the Russian capital’s coronavirus death toll. Tatyana Golikova, Russia’s health minister, has also denied any falsification of the statistics.
Unlike many other countries, Moscow’s department of health said it and Russia conducted post-mortem autopsies in 100% of deaths where coronavirus was suspected as the main cause. “Therefore, post-mortem diagnoses and causes of death recorded in Moscow are ultimately extremely accurate, and mortality data is completely transparent,” it said.
“It’s impossible in other COVID-19 cases to name the cause of death. So, for example in over 60% of deaths the cause was clearly for different reasons such as vascular failures (such as heart attacks), stage 4 malignant diseases, leukemia, systemic diseases which involve organ failure, and other incurable fatal diseases.”
It said 639 people in Moscow had died in April as a direct result of the coronavirus and its complications like pneumonia.
According to Russia, only dying of pneumonia complications count as a covid19 death.
Meanwhile in Canada
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/dangerous-blood-clots-pose-a-perplexing-coronavirus-threat-1.4956038
Darlene Gildersleeve thought she had recovered from COVID-19. Doctors said she just needed rest. And for several days, no one suspected her worsening symptoms were related -- until a May 4 video call, when her physician heard her slurred speech and consulted a specialist. "You've had two strokes," a neurologist told her at the hospital. The Hopkinton, New Hampshire, mother of three is only 43.
Blood clots that can cause strokes, heart attacks and dangerous blockages in the legs and lungs are increasingly being found in COVID-19 patients, including some children. Even tiny clots that can damage tissue throughout the body have been seen in hospitalized patients and in autopsies, confounding doctors' understanding of what was once considered mainly a respiratory infection.
"COVID-19 is the most thrombotic (clot-producing) disease we've ever seen in our lifetime," said Dr. Alex Spyropoulos, a clot specialist and professor at Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research in Manhasset, New York.
It's unclear how many COVID-19 patients develop clots. Studies from China, Europe and the United States suggest rates ranging from 3% to 70% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients; more rigorous research is needed to determine the true prevalence, the National Institutes of Health says.
Prevalence in patients with mild disease is unknown and the agency says there isn't enough evidence to recommend routine clot screening for all virus patients without clotting symptoms, which may include swelling, pain or reddish discoloring in an arm or leg.
Some hospitals have found 40% of deaths in COVID-19 patients are from blood clots. Spyropoulos said that's been true at his 23-hospital system in the New York City area, Northwell Health, which has treated over 11,000 COVID-19 patients.
