Excess mortality: "Then it would have been clear what was really going on here"

WORLD: Mr. Kauermann, last spring the virologist Hendrik Streek made a bold forecast.

He said that there will be no more deaths in 2020 despite Corona. Göran Kauermann: According to our calculations, not unexpectedly more people died than the average of the four years before.

WORLD: But the Federal Statistical Office reports almost 48,100 more deaths than in the comparison between 2016 and 2019. Kauermann: That's true as an absolute number, but ...