The full extent of the coronavirus crisis in the western world is only now coming to light as data about cases linked to care homes is made available.
In Belgium of the 4,857 deaths linked to the coronavirus reported as of April 16, 2,387 happened in care homes, according to theAround 64 percent of Norway’s 223 covid-19 related deaths were also associated with care homes. In one particularly gruesome incident in Spain, in March soldiers came across the corpses of coronavirus victims in one home afterThe picture across Europe is similarly grim, a recent TRT World report on the situation in Italy quoted a World Health Organization official who described the crisis of deaths among the elderly as aWhile for younger demographics the death rate for covid-19 infection lies between 0.
One of the factors confusing records of death are whether a person died of symptoms resembling covid-19 infection but was never tested. Excess death records therefore provide one clue in determining the impact of covid-19.
A majority of confirmed coronavirus deaths in countries such as Norway, Canada, and Spain are associated with care homes