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The entire purpose of using excess deaths is to account for the discrepancy in the way different countries attribute cause of death. So referencing "the percen
by greedo 6y ago
The entire purpose of using excess deaths is to account for the discrepancy in the way different countries attribute cause of death. So referencing
"the percentage of non-covid excess deaths seems much higher for countries that lock down compared to Sweden for example"
is nonsensical.
- briefcomment 6y agoI think it would be hard to designate deaths so differently that we couldn't draw some insight from those graphs, but in case they are designated that differently, the only thing we can do is to keep an eye on excess deaths for Sweden and its neighbors, and see if Sweden has a consistency lower excess death proportion over the next several months.