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Source: https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2021/05/10/Pandemic-Deaths-Seriously-Undercounted-New-Report/
Pandemic Deaths Are Seriously Undercounted: New Report
The toll in Canada and globally is worse than governments admit according to University of Washington researchers.
Crawford Kilian Today | TheTyee.ca
A new report from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington is quietly shocking. With meticulous reasoning, they find that practically every government on the planet has been under-reporting COVID-19 cases and deaths.
Our own, included. A map in the report shows Canada?s total COVID-19 deaths at about 1.25 to 1.75 times the reported number. (Manitoba, ominously, shows 2.0 to 2.5 times the official reported number.) On May 6, Canada reported our total deaths as 24,489; IHME would put the current true total at between 30,611 and 42,855. That would place Canada on a path to reach a total by September 1 of somewhere between 43,000 and 54,000 deaths.
In B.C., IHME?s estimate would raise our May 6 death total of 1,594 to somewhere between 1,992 and 2,789...
Pandemic Deaths Are Seriously Undercounted: New Report
The toll in Canada and globally is worse than governments admit according to University of Washington researchers.
Crawford Kilian Today | TheTyee.ca
A new report from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington is quietly shocking. With meticulous reasoning, they find that practically every government on the planet has been under-reporting COVID-19 cases and deaths.
Our own, included. A map in the report shows Canada?s total COVID-19 deaths at about 1.25 to 1.75 times the reported number. (Manitoba, ominously, shows 2.0 to 2.5 times the official reported number.) On May 6, Canada reported our total deaths as 24,489; IHME would put the current true total at between 30,611 and 42,855. That would place Canada on a path to reach a total by September 1 of somewhere between 43,000 and 54,000 deaths.
In B.C., IHME?s estimate would raise our May 6 death total of 1,594 to somewhere between 1,992 and 2,789...