04-17-2020, 07:37 AM
Here's a link to where the Economist will keep updating this data as it is made available (paywalled).
One of the best threads I've seen on this is from a guy in Italy who's been meticulous about tracking the differences in each Italian town between total deaths this year, deaths formally attributed to COVID-19, and death rates in prior years:
[tweet]https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1250441566172229634?s=20[/tweet]
If you go through his past tweets you'll see lots of stuff like this. I think at least 2x unreported is right, probably closer to 3x in regions with high numbers of old folks in care homes, etc.
One of the best threads I've seen on this is from a guy in Italy who's been meticulous about tracking the differences in each Italian town between total deaths this year, deaths formally attributed to COVID-19, and death rates in prior years:
[tweet]https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1250441566172229634?s=20[/tweet]
If you go through his past tweets you'll see lots of stuff like this. I think at least 2x unreported is right, probably closer to 3x in regions with high numbers of old folks in care homes, etc.
