[dfwgator]

Isn’t France updating numbers from Nursing Homes they weren’t previously including?

[janetjanet998]

Isn’t France updating numbers from Nursing Homes they weren’t previously including?

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Yes the first batch of data was in yesterdays update

471 new deaths from hospitals (old way)
850ish from nursing home backlogs

[amorphous]

If so, that could very well explain the huge spike. Do you have any sources for that? Thanks.

[amorphous]

I found what you were talking about:

On April 2, France reported 884 additional deaths that have occurred in nursing homes over the past days and weeks [source]. The French Government did not include these deaths in their official count, as their count only takes into consideration deaths of hospitalized patients. Following international standards of correct inclusion, our statistics will include these deaths, and will add them to the April 2, 2020 count following the attribution criteria of date of report.

So that explains the huge spike in the French numbers.

Thanks for the heads up about that.