The Financial Times, which has been playing a blinder in keeping a statistical watch on Covid-19's track of devastation across the world, has finally come to the conclusion that none of the usual methods of comparing countries works.
They are now comparing countries' figures using the only figure that can't easily be juked, at least by a relatively honest government: the figure for deaths-above-normal.
This means that countries that say "Might've been Covid-19 or might've been pneumonia" and exclude deaths on that basis can't dodge the figures.