In US, "By the second year of the pandemic, the dramatic increases in heart attacks blew apart the models.. Fatal heart attacks among adults ages 25-44 soared 29.9% over what was predicted." https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/article267801482.html
That's literally how Japan cooks the books on crime stats. Dude gets beaten to death, if they don't have someone they're going to charge, it gets ruled heart failure.
Happens in the US, too. Suicides are probably wildly undercounted because of the stigma against suicide. I think it applied to the AIDs crisis, too, where coroners would list almost anything else than put down AIDs.
And it doesn't help that in most of the country coroners are elected with no required medical training.
That's literally how Japan cooks the books on crime stats. Dude gets beaten to death, if they don't have someone they're going to charge, it gets ruled heart failure.
Happens in the US, too. Suicides are probably wildly undercounted because of the stigma against suicide. I think it applied to the AIDs crisis, too, where coroners would list almost anything else than put down AIDs.
And it doesn't help that in most of the country coroners are elected with no required medical training.