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This may be in part due to Spain conducting 500000 fewer tests compared to Italy, while Spain shows more confirmed cases?
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Maybe. Or their health system was overwhelmed at more died.
Edit, actually, maybe not. They must have been tested to be in Covid death stats and you'd think that the ratio of age would remain true, unless old people just not being tested/recorded as Covid mortality, which is likewise possible.Would be great if everyone didn't take everything here as a submission to a peer reviewed journal, it's a discussion thread and we're all relying on the stats and data that's out there, which as we all know is dependent on testing policies etc. Having to repeat the same shit all the time is very wearing.
FT proposing that UK deaths actually double that reported for instance, so we're potentially massively underreporting just as China did. If you want to wait for reliable, watertight data before discussing then it's going to be a long long time...
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Italy c. 1% of deaths are 50s or less, goes up to c. 2.5% for Spain.