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Many old people, he says, die in their own homes or in care homes without their illness even being diagnosed. Sounds pretty grim...
I too don´t read Italian, but a friend of mine who does paraphrased the reporting out of Lombardia as indicating that loads of Covid-19 deaths are recorded as pneumonia fatalities, which is nothing sinister as it is the final cause of death. Ditto in Germany.
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That's possibly true, if they were suspected cases. WHO only released a code to cover suspected cases on 23rd. https://www.who.int/classifications/icd/covid19/en/
The main relevant bit is this:
So he's saying that in Bergamo from March 1 to 24, this year 446 people died, in the last 10 years on average just 98. So there's 348 'extra' deaths. However, officially in that time only 136 people died of Covid-19, leaving 212 deaths unaccounted for - according to him, with the same symptoms.
Many old people, he says, die in their own homes or in care homes without their illness even being diagnosed. Sounds pretty grim...