A numbers man’s nightmare
There are those countries deliberately doctoring their COVID-19 data to look better. Other countries had to revise their figures because of unintentional, administrative mistakes. And then there is Belgium.
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The Italian patchwork
After the dreadful toll the pandemic took this spring, Italy has gradually managed to limit the spread of the virus. Recently, the country received wide acclaim for its approach. But the peninsula is not off the hook. Large regional differences exist. Seroprevalence data have been misinterpreted by the media. Herd immunity might have been acquired in an area of 42,000 people, 0.07% of Italy’s population.
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