Excess mortality: "Then it would have been clear what was really happening"

WORLD

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

He said there would 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 deaths more than in the comparison between 2016 and 2019.

Kauermann

: That's true as far as an absolute number, but ...