I'm in London and it's the same here. No-one I know who has symptoms has been tested.
Tipping the scales back the other way - the official deaths only include people dying in hospital, so the true death numbers will be a lot higher, especially places with overloaded hospitals.
There's a study in italy where they think real deaths are double the official count.
> However, journalists and scholars have crunched their own numbers. L’Eco di Bergamo, a newspaper, has obtained data from 82 localities in Italy’s Bergamo province. In March these places had 2,420 more deaths than in March 2019. Just 1,140, less than half of the increase, were attributed to covid-19. “The data is the tip of the iceberg,” Giorgio Gori, the mayor of Bergamo’s capital, told L’Eco. “Too many victims are not included in the reports because they die at home.”
Tipping the scales back the other way - the official deaths only include people dying in hospital, so the true death numbers will be a lot higher, especially places with overloaded hospitals.
There's a study in italy where they think real deaths are double the official count.
> However, journalists and scholars have crunched their own numbers. L’Eco di Bergamo, a newspaper, has obtained data from 82 localities in Italy’s Bergamo province. In March these places had 2,420 more deaths than in March 2019. Just 1,140, less than half of the increase, were attributed to covid-19. “The data is the tip of the iceberg,” Giorgio Gori, the mayor of Bergamo’s capital, told L’Eco. “Too many victims are not included in the reports because they die at home.”
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/04/03/covid-19...
Paywall walkaround - https://outline.com/pUGx8d