Testing for covid-19 is a major barrier to accurate infection and death counts, but not the only one
KEEPING TABS on covid-19’s toll can feel like trying to count grains of sand on a beach. According to governments’ official counts, almost 4.7m people diagnosed with the disease have died. Yet the real figure is much higher.puts it between 9.6m and 18.2m people, with 15.6m our single best guess, as of September 21st. Calculating the cost of the pandemic matters. It influences how governments and health-care systems respond, and how aid and vaccines are distributed.
Testing is not the only hurdle. Some people who tested positive for covid-19 died from other causes, and were thus not strictly victims of the pandemic. You do not have to catch covid-19 to be a victim. Other preventable deaths occurred because of the pandemic, for instance through overburdened hospitals or more
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