
<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">My bad, wrong tab. It was Financial Times in April.<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/6bd88b7d-3386-4543-b2e9-0d5c6fac846c">https://www.ft.com/content/6bd88b7d-3386-4543-b2e9-0d5c6fac846c</a><br><br><div dir="ltr">Deirdre</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Aug 8, 2020, at 11:17 AM, Deirdre Saoirse Moen <deirdre@deirdre.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><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></div></blockquote></div></body></html>