Corona .. 3 factors make it difficult to be aware of the numbers of pandemic victims

The daily count of corona virus pandemic victims in countries of the world is an accurate and difficult process, since collecting numbers with the competent authorities is not comprehensive for all cases, and many factors affect the registration of disease victims that give numbers that are definitely less than the truth, and among these factors: the place of death , The manner in which it disclosed its causes, and the variation in the timing of the information.

According to the French Institute for Demographic Studies, the death toll of the emerging disease remains a "real statistical challenge".

Homes for the elderly
While countries like Spain and South Korea count all deaths of those infected with the Corona virus in or outside the hospital, many countries do not. For example, the death numbers in Iran include only those recorded in hospitals.

Until recently, deaths in homes for the elderly were not covered by official figures in France and Britain, and they are not in simple numbers since today they account for more than a third of the death toll in France.

In Italy, which has the largest number of deaths from the virus in the world up to now, there are countless deaths in homes for the elderly, and the Civil Defense says that only in the event of a pandemic widespread in one of the homes for the elderly, checks and counts of the virus's deaths take place.

In the United States, the largest global focus for HIV patients, the deaths calculated differ from one US state to another. The state of New York includes in its statistics corona patients in the homes of the elderly, while California does not.

Other diseases
While some countries such as South Korea, Italy, Spain and Britain include in the numbers of people with corona even those who died from complications from a previous illness, others are adopting a more selective method.

Iran, the largest epicenter of the virus in the Middle East, does not count the deceased who were confirmed to be infected with coronavirus, but died from another serious respiratory illness.

In America, many testimonies were received of people who had lost relatives due to pneumonia before Corona disease checks were readily available, or they could not get them at all.

Tests and time limits
Jill Besson and France Messley, two experts at the French Institute for Demographic Studies, said in statements on the site, "Investigating and gathering information during a pandemic requires a few days, and the experts add that it takes a few months to be informed about the accurate death count."

Even if the deceased did not receive corona examinations in the United States, it should be mentioned in their death certificates whether the virus is a "possible cause" of death, but issuing these certificates requires some time, and these deaths cannot be counted in any immediate outcome of the health authorities. .

Scientists in the United States have also warned that many of those who have been diagnosed with the disease may not be infected with the virus, because of the factors that affect the ability of the technological methods used to detect the infection, the most prominent of which is PCR technology.

In Spain, the civil records and the number of burial ceremonies reveal more deaths from the disease than are recorded in the official figures, and because of the inability to generalize the tests, it is rare for post-mortem examinations to be performed, so if someone does not prove that a new disease was caused before death , It is not officially counted as a Corona victim.

An example of this disparity in Spain is that in March 1921 the Supreme Court in the Castilla-La Mancha region recorded or suspected of having died due to corona virus, which is three times higher than the number of deaths counted by health authorities until March 31. Last March, which was around 708 deaths.