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The way in which we code deaths in our country is very generous in the sense that all the people who die in hospitals with the coronavirus are deemed to be dying of the coronavirus.

But people who died without a diagnose for the Coronavirus are deemed to be dead not because of it.

From https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-...

in the city of Bergamo, there were 108 more deaths in the first 15 days of March this year compared to 2019 (164 deaths in 2020 vs. 56 deaths in 2019) according to the mayor of the city Giorgio Gori. During this period, 31 deaths were attributed to the coronavirus (less than 30% of the additional deaths this year)
"There are significant numbers of people who have died but whose death hasn't been attributed to the coronavirus because they died at home or in a nursing home and so they weren't swabbed," said the mayor

Granted, the sample and time interval is small to draw conclusions. But we'll know (perhaps when it's too late) what's the real death-toll of the coronavirus is.

tl;dr: The death count is not generous; probably the other way around. By, perhaps, a very big margin.

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