German only counts deaths that have a positive virus test.

ベルギーもやはりICUに空きがあるようですね。老人ホームで罹患した患者は救わない、という方針が医療崩壊を招かない理由のようです。ベルギーは半分のホームの死者はコロナのせいではないからと嘯いているようですが、超過死亡数を見る分にただ見捨てているような。https://t.co/Y12TkXY9ME

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According to Belgian officials, the reason for the grisly figures isn't overwhelmed hospitals - 43 per cent of intensive care beds were vacant even at the peak of the crisis - but the country's bureaucratic rigour.


Unlike many other countries, the home of the European Union's top institutions counts deaths at nursing homes even if there wasn't a confirmed infection.

"We often get criticism - oh, you're making Belgium look bad - we think it's the opposite," Steven Van Gucht, head of the viral disease division at the Sciensano public health institute, said while maintaining the requisite distance of 1.5m. "If you want to compare our numbers with a lot of other countries, you basically have to cut them in half."

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About 95 per cent of Covid-19 deaths in elderly care homes haven't been diagnosed, yet Belgium makes the decision to register them based on the symptoms shown and who the people have been in contact with. The goal is to get a clearer picture of the outbreak and better target hot spots.


Last week, Spain had to adjust its historical data after Catalonia started including people who had symptoms but didn't test positive. This week a local radio broadcaster reported that more than 6,800 elderly died in Spanish nursing homes with symptoms but weren't recorded in official data.


Germany's unusually low mortality rate may be helped by the fact that the country only counts deaths that have a positive virus test.

Such discrepancies show up in a concept called "excess mortality," the number of extra fatalities above typical trends. In Belgium, just over 300 people normally die every day, but this year, it's jumped to nearly 600.

Belgium's practice means that nearly all deaths are accounted for in a given week, while neighbouring Netherlands has around 1,000 undefined fatalities. Some countries' virus deaths are around a sixth of their excess mortality rates.

延命治療しない方針があるかどうかはわからないが、

欧州の大半は病院で陽性が出た場合だけ、コロナ死に勘定している。
ベルギーは老人ホームで、コロナ症状があって死んだ場合、陽性がでなくてもコロナ死に入れている。
したがって、ベルギーのコロナ死の人数は多く、例えばドイツは少ない。

コロナのおかげで、例年の死亡者数は倍近くの死亡者がでている。

と。

にもかかわらず、集中治療室について、

- 43 per cent of intensive care beds were vacant even at the peak of the crisis

患者数が絶頂のときでも、４３％は空きだった、というのですから、老人については集中治療室にいれないようななんらかの方針があるんでしょうね。