COVID-19: HOW SHOULD WE COUNT DEATHS?
As the number of COVID-19 deaths worldwide surpasses one million and continues to climb, the real number could be much higher due to misclassified and indirect deaths.
At the beginning of the pandemic, information about rates of infection, hospitalisation and even deaths was often delayed or unreliable. Testing was not widely in place and the understanding of the biological and clinical features of the virus made classifying a ‘COVID death’ difficult.
As many countries are facing a second wave of
