Health
Early COVID-19 deaths may have been listed as pneumonia, diabetes, stroke – Sydney Morning Herald
Modelling by the Actuaries Institute shows there were more than 500 unexpected deaths in March and April, with researchers suggesting many of them could have been from undetected COVID-19.
Jennifer Lang, convener of the working group, said it was “statistically plausible” that the true figure was two to three times higher.
Deaths from influenza and pneumonia were “significantly higher than predicted” over the four-week period, the group’s report said, while noting COVID-19 “often presents as similar to pneumonia” and testing during this phase of the pandemic in Australia was limited.
“While we cannot be definitive, we expect that more people probably died because of COVID-19 dur…
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