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by DanBC 2248 days ago
Try to find some 5 year / 10 year averages to see how excess mortality because of covid-19 compares.

Here's one for the UK: https://twitter.com/ONS/status/1252518098047041536
1 comments
arcticbull 2248 days ago
It's not clear that 100% of excess mortality is COVID, or how that actually relates to its IFR. More data needed.
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DanBC 2248 days ago
Sure, all that excess mortality is likely to be an increase in cake-related death caused by quarantined shut-ins eating themselves to death.
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