Re: Sanofi
And if you compare historical rates of influenza, you will notice very different methods of allocating "cause of death" between countries.
The statistics for some countries will be accurate or as close to it as reasonably possible (i.e. the UK statsistics are often skewed by rates per day for processing issues.
It will be interesting to see how population statistics and personnal stories released from China in the coming years reflect the statsistics they have already released.