Ok we need to talk about Russian and Belarusian fatality rates.

Other countries with fewer than 1% Covid-19 fatalities have contained their outbreaks, like Australia or Iceland. Both Russia and Belarus have cases growing exponentially but way fewer deaths than their neighbors. https://twitter.com/AlexKokcharov/status/1250736522539786240">https://twitter.com/AlexKokch...
Hypothesis A: Russia and Belarus are better at testing than Germany, so a vast majority of the cases they register are non-symptomatic and relatively few cases are critical.

Hypothesis B: They aren& #39;t entirely honest with reporting their Covid-19 deaths.
Hypothesis A doesn& #39;t really hold water because, according to Belarus Health Ministry data (h/t @AlexKokcharov), 67 out of Belarus& #39;s 4204 Covid-19 patients are on ventilators. 1,5% critical cases seems pretty average , so unlikely that Belarus has relatively fewer critical cases.
You can only get so creative with underreporting deaths, though, so most likely Russia& #39;s and Belarus& #39;s Covid19 fatality rates are around those of their neighbors (2-3%), and consequently death tolls are 2-3 times higher (not by orders of magnitude, as some would claim).
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