numberwang said:
Doubtful number considering that anyone who dies with the coronavirus (regardless of symptoms) is counted as having died from it. I will take more time to analyze total death numbers (many of them caused by the lockdowns) compared to previous years to get a better estimation of "surplus death". |
Other posters have already addressed this quite well, but if anything 400k is likely to be far too low as that's only counting people who were confirmed to have died from COVID-19, not the many thousands who would've died without getting tested, particularly in the many countries where the amount of testing being done is inadequate.
Also, I don't know where you got the idea that developing countries don't have comorbidities that can increase the fatality rate. Sure, there tend to be less people over 75, but endemic diseases that burden and weaken the immune system are abundant in developing nations. Look at the prevalence of HIV in Africa for example. Developing nations also don't have access to the same quality of medical care that "first world" nations do, which will increase the death toll still further.
By the time this is over, the death toll will be in the millions. This is not something to downplay and scoff at.
