Please source this. Germany can't hide those deaths because they would leave a hole in the active cases + recovered + deaths statistic.
Unless they are fudging the new case numbers to exclude the number of deaths from the previous day. As every state is independently giving the numbers, they couldn't be hiding this for long.
So please source your statement.
I don't think you understand what i said. I didn't say germany is hiding their deaths. I'm saying that Italy
has to count every infected person that died as a coronavirus death for administrative reasons, other countries can estabilish co-morbidity. We'll have a clear picture on the actual impact and rates only well after this is all over.
The alternative is for you to believe that for some reason, the same virus, on the same population, has two different effects depending on which side of the alps it is.
As for the source, it was a vice-minister iirc. I'll try to find the article but it's already pretty old by now, and i've read lord know how much in those days.
EDIT: found it, it was an interview to Franco Ricciardi, a scientist on the board of directors of the WHO, it's in italian, here:
Abbiamo raggiunto al telefono Walter Ricciardi, consulente del Ministro della Salute, di fatto la figura più di spicco nella complicatissima gestione dell’emergenza coronavirus in Italia. La prima inevitabile domanda è: era proprio necessaria la chiusura di tutta l’Italia disposta dal decreto di...
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Abbiamo raggiunto al telefono Walter Ricciardi, consulente del Ministro della Salute, di fatto la figura più di spicco nella complicatissima gestione dell’emergenza coronavirus in Italia. La prima inevitabile domanda è: era proprio necessaria la chiusura di tutta l’Italia disposta dal decreto di...
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