Try refreshing your browser, or How 'excess deaths' show COVID's real impact, and point to better ways of combating pandemics Back to video But a metric that’s drawn relatively little public attention belies the narrative that the coronavirus threat has been grossly exaggerated. Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Canada saw about 42 excess deaths per 100,000 people by the fall of 2020, according to calculations from Ode’s team at Oxford. Russia, for instance, has recorded 72,000 COVID-19 deaths and 425,000 excess deaths since the pandemic started, the Economist table indicates. “It’s too early to draw conclusions about a league table (of countries’ excess deaths),” said Ode.

Source: National Post April 09, 2021 10:02 UTC