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One article I read recently brought up a topic on how unreliable testing and confirming the dead are currently that to get a more accurate count we should look
by tren-hard 7y ago
One article I read recently brought up a topic on how unreliable testing and confirming the dead are currently that to get a more accurate count we should look at year over year deaths. This could be broken down to compare deaths in a county the last x years in March to this year.
To me it makes sense I suppose, yoy is a pretty common tool. But I'm just a reader, so perhaps it is not correct
- hkai 7y agoThe variations in deaths between years is so large (over 30k deaths difference, sometimes up sometimes down) that year on year comparison may not be meaningful. You could just twist the data to prove any point, even that covid-19 reduced deaths.