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"Everyone has the right to clear, accessible, timely and meaningful information about the nature and extent of the threat to their health".

(Esteban Beltrán, Director of Amnesty International's Spanish Section, before the Economic and Social Reconstruction Commission of the Spanish Parliament, European Union Group, 12 June 2020)

Attempt to view in perspective the health hazard posed by the COVID-19 pandemic:

Mortality in spring of 2020 in Spain and Germany compared to the general death rate in both countries

Europe

European Mortality Monitoring (EuroMoMo), Statens Serum Institut, Kopenhagen
https://www.euromomo.eu

https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/, week 20/2020, accessed on 15/05/2020


Spain


Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) (National Institute of Statistics, Madrid)
https://www.ine.es/

Mortality in general

https://www.ine.es/consul/serie.do?s=MNP89585&c=2&nult=50, last accessed on 30/04/2020

Mortality in 2019, provisional data

https://www.ine.es/dyngs/INEbase/es/operacion.htm?c=Estadistica_C&cid=1254736177008&idp=1254735573002&menu=resultados#!tabs-1254736195546, accessed on 22/04/2020

https://www.ine.es/dyngs/INEbase/es/operacion.htm?c=Estadistica_C&cid=1254736177008&menu=ultiDatos&idp=1254735573002, accessed on 22/04/2020

Monthly and yearly data

https://www.ine.es/dynt3/inebase/index.htm?padre=1132&capsel=1134,accessed on 22/04/2020

Causes of deaths

https://www.ine.es/jaxiT3/Tabla.htm?t=14819, accessed on 22/04/2020


Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Centro Nacional de Epidemiología, Monitorización de la Mortalidad diaria (MoMo)
[Institute for Health Carlos III, National Centre of Epidemiology, Monitoring of Daily Mortality (MoMo)], Madrid https://momo.isciii.es

Graphs

https://momo.isciii.es/public/momo/dashboard/momo_dashboard.html, accessed on 23/04., 01/05., 27/05., 02/06. and 04/06/2020

Tables

https://momo.isciii.es/public/momo/dashboard/momo_dashboard.html#datos, accessed on 04/06/2020

General information on the novel Corona virus

https://covid19.isciii.es/, accessed on 04/06/2020.
(Update 27/06/2021: URL now is:
https://cnecovid.isciii.es/covid19/)


Other sources


Nosocomial infections

Val d'Hebron Hospital, Barcelona
http://hws.vhebron.net/epine/Global/EPINE-EPPS%202017%20Informe%20Global%20de%20Espa%C3%B1a%20Resumen.pdf
(Update 08/05/2021: The document is not accessible any more. In can be consulted in "Materials" under the title EPINE-EPPS 2017 Informe Global de España Resumen.pdf.
Recent data concerning nosocomial infections:
Sociedad Española de Medicina Preventiva, Salud Pública e Higiene, Estudio de Prevalencia de las Infecciones Nosocomiales en España (EPINE), https://epine.es)


Digital journal immedicohospitalario
https://www.immedicohospitalario.es

https://www.immedicohospitalario.es/noticia/8349/las-infecciones-nosocomiales-mas-frecuentes-en-espana-son-urinarias-respiratorias-y-del-lecho-quirurgico


Digital daily El Diario
https://www.eldiario.es/

Belén Remacha / Raúl Sanchez, El registro de muertes suma de golpe 12.000 fallecidos durante el pico de la pandemia, más de la mitad en Catalunya (The death register suddenly increases by 12.000 deceased during the peak of the pandemia, more than half of them in Catalonia), https://www.eldiario.es/sociedad/MoMo-registro-muertes_0_1031697065.html?_ga=2.195763883.607369215.1590683111-795171950.1590683111, 27/05/2020, last accessed on 05/06/2020

Belén Remacha, Amparo Larrauri, epidemióloga: "Nunca llegaremos a saber cuántas de las 43.000 muertes de más fueron directamente por COVID-19" (We shall never know how many of the 43.000 excess deaths happened directly through COVID-19), https://www.eldiario.es/sociedad/llegaremos-cuantas-muertes-directamente-COVID-19_0_1033797562.html?_ga=2.257052940.607369215.1590683111-795171950.1590683111, 02/06/2020, last accessed on 05.06.2020.


Germany

Federal Office of Statistics
Statistisches Bundesamt, Wiesbaden
https://www.destatis.de

General population figures

https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Gesellschaft-Umwelt/Bevoelkerung/Bevoelkerungsstand/_inhalt.html, last accessed on 03/05/2020

General mortality

https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Gesellschaft-Umwelt/Bevoelkerung/Sterbefaelle-Lebenserwartung/Tabellen/sonderauswertung-sterbefaelle.html?nn=209016, last accessed on 05/06/2020

Special COVID-19-evaluation

https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Gesellschaft-Umwelt/Bevoelkerung/Sterbefaelle-Lebenserwartung/sterbefallzahlen.html, last accessed on 05/06/2020

Press release on mortality around week 19/2020

https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/2020/06/PD20_203_12621.html?nn=209016, last accessed on 06/05/2020.


Robert-Koch-Institut, Berlin
https://www.rki.de

Numbers of cases of COVID-19

https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus/Fallzahlen.html, last accessed on 03/05/2020

Characteristics of the novel Corona virus

https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus/Steckbrief.html, last accessed on 11/06/2020

The course of COVID-19 from infection to death

https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus/Steckbrief.html#doc13776792bodyText7, last accessed on 11/06/2020

Estimate of the development of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic

Robert-Koch-Institut, Schätzung der aktuellen Entwicklung der SARS-CoV-2-Epidemie in Deutschland – Nowcasting, Epidemiologisches Bulletin 17-2020, 23. April 2020,
https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/Infekt/EpidBull/Archiv/2020/Ausgaben/17_20.pdf?__blob=publicationFilehttps://www.rki.de/DE/Content/Infekt/EpidBull/Archiv/2020/Ausgaben/17_20.pdf?__blob=publicationFile, downloaded on 10/06/2020



Other sources


Website https://www.praeventologe.de

https://www.praeventologe.de/hauptbeitraege-nicht-loeschen/1380-informationen-zu-corona


Digital daily Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin

https://m.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/mein-labor-hat-deutschland-vorsprung-eingespielt-virologe-drosten-reklamiert-rettung-von-bis-zu-100-000-leben-fuer-sein-team/25871954.html?? , last accessed on 11/06/2020



Monograph

Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2007, p. 290-291.

Contents

1. Definition of the problem and summary

1.1. Definition of the problem

1.2. Summary