I'm reading that the death toll being given by many countries are false
People that are dying with C19 are being marked down as dying from C19
And if they had any C19 symptoms it's being assumed they had C19
For example i read that in Italy only 12% of their reported deaths are from C19
The rest died from existing conditions
A sharp drop in pneumonia deaths also supports this.
The only way to really get a good picture of what is happening is to compare the total deaths we had in March to the total deaths of recent years
In 2018 there was over 2,800,000 deaths in the USA at a monthly average of 233,333
We don't have the total deaths for March so we cannot see how they compare
In Australia the mere 61 deaths hardly makes a difference to the nations average
A lot more people are suffering from this lock down here in Oz
The Covid-19 tests are expensive using rather expensive reagents than many other tests use. Also the machines that process these tests are expensive and require highly specialized people to operate them... meaning that they require a high salary and only work so many hours a day.
On top of this...
The tests haven't been all that accurate to begin with. (Chinese designed and built)
Making these tests super expensive to begin with.
$9,000 per test for a deceased person is a bit much... especially when no one is paying for it.
A lot of numbers are going to be skewed...
And Epidemiology is a science of cutting out the bad numbers for the true ones.
It can do a lot of factoring of usual deaths and climate variations and other reasons why people die and come up with the truth and genetic reasons why some people died.
Also consider that only when a person is on a ventilator does it qualify as "critical" by the WHO. Just because they are in a hospital bed and on oxygen and IV fluids means nothing to the WHO numbers of "critical".
And whether or not you have any more ventilators also is not relevant to the WHO "critical" list.
Epidemiology is a science...they know calculus and statistics really well... better than you or I do.
We'll see what shakes out eventually.