Excess death mystery puzzles experts
THEY are the dead, unassigned and unexplained that tell the story of either a health system under performing or a disease more deadly than we know.
Every night, many South Africans follow a ritual. They scroll down Twitter feeds to learn of the latest Covid 19 death toll, released by Health Minister Zweli Mkhize But as those numbers have climbed as the second Covid 19 wave swept through the country, so has a death toll.
The number of excess deaths – those
