COVID death tolls: scientists acknowledge huge errors in WHO estimates

From the very beginning of the global Covid-19 pandemic were the death tolls too high, because e.g. everybody no matter what the health condition at the time of death was counted if only infected with the disease.

My hunch is that the large upward correction for Sweden is dubious unless there was indeed a serious undercount!

The concept of excess mortality applied here by WHO is most likely dubious as well!

"Scientists working with the World Health Organization (WHO) have corrected some surprising errors in its estimates of how many deaths the pandemic has caused, after a flurry of questions about the original WHO report, issued in early May.

In a revision to a technical paper on their methods, researchers cut Germany’s pandemic-related deaths estimate by 37%, pulling its excess death rate below those of the United Kingdom and Spain. They also raised their estimate for Sweden by 19%  ...
And India’s government disputes the WHO’s estimate of 3.3 million to 6.5 million deaths in the country, which is some 10 times greater than India’s official COVID-19 death toll."

COVID death tolls: scientists acknowledge errors in WHO estimates Researchers with the World Health Organization explain mistakes in high-profile mortality estimates for Germany and Sweden.