Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[SvennoJ]

numberwang said:

crissindahouse said:

There might be some counted as Covid-19 deaths which died from something else but you have way more people who died from it but didn't get counted in these numbers. If it's old people in nursing homes which just don't get counted or way too many countries not counting properly at all (because they just can't do it better or because they just fake numbers to let it look better as it is).

To believe that the real numbers are lower as 400k right now is pretty optimistic. 

I doubt that. Covid19 resembles a slow and prolonged severe pneumonia with visible symptoms and I don't see how patients in first world countries could have not been tested. Third world countries don't have the demographics of +75years olds with multiple underlying diseases.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/covid19-clots-coronavirus-1.5585582
There are different ways to die from Covid19. Some hospitals have found 40 per cent 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. Russia doesn't count these at all for example.

Covid19 can also have rapid progression. In can turn from doing all right into quickly running out of air and passing out. Many deaths in elderly homes didn't get tested and never saw a hospital.

Anyway what else is suddenly going around to cause so many extra deaths worldwide?