I didn't know this until today. This makes comparing data even harder across countries
Prof Walter Ricciardi, scientific adviser to Italy’s minister of health -
Prof Walter Ricciardi, scientific adviser to Italy’s minister of health -
“The way in which we code deaths in our country is very generous in the sense that all the people who die in hospitals with the coronavirus are deemed to be dying of the coronavirus.
“On re-evaluation by the National Institute of Health, only 12 per cent of death certificates have shown a direct causality from coronavirus, while 88 per cent of patients who have died have at least one pre-morbidity - many had two or three." telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
