(Times of Israel) Nathan Jeffay - Hebrew University researchers studied death rates in half the countries of the world to learn how much higher deaths were during the corona pandemic compared to previous years. In Russia, there were 110,000 confirmed coronavirus deaths, but there were 500,000 excess deaths. In Belarus there were 390 virus deaths but 5,700 excess deaths, and in Nicaragua there were 140 virus deaths but 7,000 excess deaths. In many countries, numbers are impacted by a lack of testing capacity. In the U.S., there were 590,000 virus deaths and 640,000 excess deaths. Israel is one of the few countries where the number of excess deaths is smaller than the number of recorded Covid-19 deaths: 5,000 versus 6,477. This may be because lockdowns and social distancing meant that influenza was hardly existent in Israel, though in a normal year it causes 2,000 deaths.
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