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Russia is reporting just over 100,000 Covid 19 deaths, but the truth is that three times that number there have died due to the disease. Russia has a dismal healthcare system, ranked 103rd in the world. That combined with a home-grown vaccine of dubious efficacy means that Russians are likely to continue to experience an outsized death rate compared to other European countries.
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SAMARA, Russia — She burst into the hospital morgue and the bodies were everywhere, about a dozen of them in black bags on stretchers. She headed straight for the autopsy room, pleading with the guard in a black jacket: “Can I speak to the doctor who opened up my father?”
Olga Kagarlitskaya’s father had been hospitalized weeks earlier in a coronavirus ward. Now he was gone, cause of death: “viral pneumonia, unspecified.” Ms. Kagarlitskaya, recording the scene on her smartphone, wanted to know the truth. But the guard, hands in pockets, sent her away.
There were thousands of similar cases across Russia last year, the government’s own statistics show. At least 300,000 more people died last year during the coronavirus pandemic than were reported in Russia’s most widely cited official statistics.
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