People compare the performance of different countries
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Rather than counting cases, People look to death tolls as a better method, due to lack of testing
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Official death tolls still undercount the real number
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Stanford University released a “pre-print” without peer review study, found that 50 to 85 times more people have been infected with the virus than official figures show
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More than 15% of coronavirus deaths taking place outside hospital, says ONS
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Many countries only count those who die in hospital (including the UK?)
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The Economist says the best way to count is to look at “excess mortality”: to compare actual deaths against the statistical average number of deaths expected
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The Economist thinks the US death toll is about 140% of what has been reported