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SvennoJ on 31 May 2020
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JapaneseGamesLover said:
Who honestly believes China and Russia death toll ?

Russia has only been counting deaths by pneumonia complications in hospital with confirmed covid19 test result. Yet studies have already estimated that up to 40% of covid19 deaths are due to blood clots.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/covid19-clots-coronavirus-1.5585582

It seems Russia is going to adjust their figures
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-coronavirus-deaths-stats-covid-19-1.5591150
April death toll under new criteria could be nearly 60% more than previously tallied

The Russian government on Friday presented more detailed mortality figures for last month that include more deaths linked with the coronavirus, in a bid to dispel suspicions from some Russian and Western experts that authorities were trying to lower the toll for political reasons. But officials also defended the way they register deaths, which only includes people confirmed to have died of COVID-19, and not those who succumbed to other causes — even if they also tested positive for the virus.

Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said that 1,675 people died of COVID-19 in April. Of that number, 1,136 deaths were directly caused by confirmed COVID-19, while the remaining 539 tested negative but most likely died of the virus. In addition to that, she said, 1,038 others tested positive for the virus but died of other causes. If all three categories are counted as COVID-19 deaths, the nation's total toll for April would stand at 2,713 or nearly 60 per cent more than the previously announced number.

May will face a huge adjustment...

I don't believe France and Spain anymore either. They screw more with the numbers than China did. Changing criteria all the time, miscounting, removing cases and deaths, lumping anti body tests, presumptive cases and confirmed new cases all together. Spain's daily reported deaths dropped under 5 for the past week after deleting 1900 deaths.

Russia is very consistent in reporting cases though, no weekend wobbles, no huge spikes up or down, yet also not fake like Iran's and Turkey's buttery smooth decline a month ago. At least they're consistent in testing.