Originally Posted by
valdor
Are deaths with covid, but not from covid, reported as covid deaths in Japan? That could explain the discrepancy (a cancer patient who is also covid positive at the moment of death would not have been counted as a severe covid case, for example).
Agree. This is clearly documented in the news two years ago as happening in America (maybe due to government incentives paid to medical institutions), but not sure Japan works the same way. The definition isn’t clear. Shocking.
