Quote Originally Posted by Helen View Post
Wuhan residents estimate, based on calculations of cremations and urns now being returned to families, that between 42k-46k (!!) died in city + surrounding areas in the 2.5 months of lockdown. Far more than official figure of 2535 deaths.

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/chi...020182846.html
I did some seat-of-the-pants calculations using the overall death rate for China and a population of 11 million for the city itself and in 2.5 months the city alone should produce close to 17,000 deaths absent a pandemic. Do you have any estimate of the population of the surrounding area included in this?