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It does because regional fluctuations don't warrant a widespread overreaction. Overall mortality for Europe is lower than during most flu seasons: https://www

• graeme 7y ago
  That’s for week 13. I expect france would be higher now. Week 13 is march 22-28 if I counted right. Deaths lag cases. French Coronavirus deaths went from 674 on the 22nd, to 2314 on the 28th, to 8078 yesterday april 5th. I would say your comment is premature.
• takeda 7y ago
  Because if no coronavirus this would be rather a good year. The December-February looked better than on average. The thing you are missing though is that crisis started mid March. It feels like forever (because of shelter at home), but it is a very short time and every few days the number of cases doubles. Most of that doesn't register on graphs that spans multiple years (look at the dates).