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Widespread COVID death underreporting around the world raises broader questions
During the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world faced the same basic challenge: measuring a fast-moving public health crisis and communicating its severity to citizens.
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world faced the same basic challenge: measuring a fast-moving public health crisis and communicating its severity to citizens. A new study by Ariel Karlinsky (Hebrew University) and Professor Moses Shayo (Hebrew University & King's College London) suggests that in many countries, they did not.
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