80% of Russian doctors do not trust the statistics of mortality from Covid-19

Almost 80% of Russian doctors do not trust the official statistics of mortality from coronavirus in Russia. The survey was conducted by RNC Pharma and Doctor at Work, its results were published in the publication "Medical Herald" .

61% of the doctors surveyed doubts the reliability of the official mortality data from coronavirus. Another 17% said that they were ready to confirm the facts of manipulations with statistics and diagnoses. 8% of doctors believe that it is not required to distort data for now, but as soon as the number of coronavirus victims begins to grow, manipulations with numbers will begin.

Completely trust the statistics of 9% of respondents. They believe that it is impossible to fake death data. The "medical messenger" appealed to the Ministry of Health of Russia with a request to comment on the results of the survey.

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Official statistics on the number of those killed from coronavirus in Russia were criticized. The Mediazona publication calculated that in Russia at least 186 medical workers were killed from the consequences of infection with coronavirus. The percentage of the death of doctors is several times higher than in countries with comparable scale of the epidemic. In May, the British newspaper The Financial Times and the American The New York Times published materials about the number of deaths from coronavirus infection in Moscow and St. Petersburg. According to journalists, a real number of deaths can be 70 percent more than given in official Russian statistics.

As of May 27, 370,680 cases of infection with coronavirus were recorded in Russia. 3968 people died. Recovered 142 208 sick.