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‘Significant underestimation’: Canada’s COVID-19 case count likely much higher than reported
coronavirus cases are reported each day, as the COVID-19 pandemic has taken a hold on everyday life.But does the official case count actually paint the true picture of the pandemic and show how widespread the disease really is? Experts say not quite. Risk of death 3.5 times higher for COVID-19 than influenza: CMAJ “The daily numbers of new cases are a significant underestimation of real COVID prevalence,” said Dionne Aleman, professor of industrial engineering at the University of Toronto, in an interview with Global News.