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I wonder if they properly controlled for the Boston Marathon bombing. Although there were amazingly few direct casualties given the circumstances, the extra str
by cozzyd 7y ago
I wonder if they properly controlled for the Boston Marathon bombing. Although there were amazingly few direct casualties given the circumstances, the extra strain on the hospital system may have had substantial second order effects.
- maxerickson 7y agoThey did not include 2013 in their analysis. They also typically found ~11 hospitalizations of Medicare recipients for heart attacks on a study day and included ~12,000 hospitalizations, so 1 day wouldn't impact the data that much anyway.