Deaths due to COVID-19 is a very complex equation involving demographers, data scientists and public health, the Economist have their own modelling system. They deal with many differences for example “Early in the pandemic, countries such as the Netherlands counted only those individuals who died in hospital after testing positive for the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Neighbouring Belgium included deaths in the community and everyone who died after showing symptoms of the disease, even if they weren’t diagnosed.”

llion, official data suggested. It has now reached 5.5 million. But that figure is a significant underestimate. Records of excess mortality — a metric that involves comparing all deaths recorded with those expected to occur — show many more people than this have died...

Video just takes a minute or so to listen to. Ireland, we have 400,000 vaccines going out of date in the next 12 days. Please encourage people who have not yet had same either based on fear, misinformation, lack of time. Listen to what Maria van Kerkhove has to say in this short clip. People who have had the COVID-19 recent weeks cannot get the booster for another three months so if you haven’t had COVID-19 just phone your GP/Chemist

Maria Van Kerkhove Retweeted World Health Organization (WHO) @WHO · 23h Every variant of the #COVID19 virus, including Omicron, is dangerous and can cause: -severe disease -death -further virus mutations and jeopardize the effectiveness of the tools we have to fight...