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We have made our regularly-updated excess-mortality tracker free to read. A thread👇 (1/9) econ.trib.al/Ie6MSY4
At the start of April we analysed mortality data from different regions in Italy, France and Spain. The increases in total mortality in some areas were more than twice the number of deaths officially attributed to covid-19 (2/9) econ.trib.al/JpFzBiw
In many countries the number of deaths in March is much higher than last year. How many of these fatalities could be attributed to covid-19? (3/9)
We built an international tracker of excess-mortality data to answer this question and to compare different countries (4/9)
Different countries record official covid-related deaths in different ways. That can make the data difficult to compare (5/9)
For example, Italy only counts fatalities who tested positive, usually at hospitals, whereas France includes people who died in care homes, which is 40% of the national total (6/9)
That leads to big discrepancies in the data, which excess mortality rates can help to reveal (7/9)
As more places start to publish their total mortality figures, we will report and analyse them in one place (8/9) econ.trib.al/Ie6MSY4
If you want to see more of The Economist's coverage, you can find all of our articles about coronavirus here (9/9) econ.trib.al/NOjMjbA
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