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Luca Dellanna
Personal blog · pandemic.substack.comhealthscience
Luca Dellanna writes Covid Stuff, a personal blog at pandemic.substack.com about health and science. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “The elephant in the room: covid deaths are undercounted”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments on this Substack discuss pandemic mortality, comparing official COVID-19 death counts with total excess deaths in Spain and Italy. The one comment cites figures and does not judge the writing.
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Most-linked posts?
- The elephant in the room: covid deaths are undercounted2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-04-01
What Hacker News says?
We are also not counting deaths due to overwhelmed health care systems. In Madrid, in 2019, 794 people died total in March. In March 2020, it was 1318, with 192 COVID-19 deaths. 542 more than 2019 due to an overwhelmed medical system. In Catilla-La Mancha, 534 in march 2019, 938 total deaths in 2020, 206 officially from COVID-19. In Spain and Italy, total mortality is around 2-3 times more than direct COVID-19 morta…
Comment linking /p/the-elephant-in-the-room-undercounting
on a deleted threadSubmitted The elephant in the room: covid deaths are undercounted as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted The secret weapon: face masks as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Testing Illusion as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The two coronavirus metrics you should care about as a story · 1 points
HN discussion