
<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">On Aug 8, 2020, at 10:49 AM, Michael Paoli <Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu> wrote:<br><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/05/us/coronavirus-death-toll-us.html</span><br><span>"200,700 more people have died than usual from March 15 to July 25" ... "54,000 higher than the official count of coronavirus deaths for that period"</span><br><span></span><br><span>What, somebody suppressed about 20% of the numbers?</span><br><span>That would never happen, right, ... right?</span><br></div></blockquote><br><div>Unsurprisingly, the dismal science, The Economist, was the first to cover this:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/07/15/tracking-covid-19-excess-deaths-across-countries">https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/07/15/tracking-covid-19-excess-deaths-across-countries</a></div><div><br></div><div>Deirdre</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>