Ich weiß, ich bin kleinlich und eine totale Panikbremse (mit Handschuhen, ich geh auch nicht raus, keine Sorge!), aber berücksichtigen sollte man das da unten schon, am Rande (neben ein paar anderen Faktoren, Alter, Luftverschmutzung, erfreulich enger familiärer Zusammenhalt in ganz normalen Zeiten … (Hervorhebungen von mir, Link hier).
But Prof (Walter) Ricciardi (scientific adviser to Italy’s minister of health) added that Italy’s death rate may also appear high because of how doctors record fatalities.
“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,” he says.
