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This paper specifically looks at before and after a sports team arrives, so it’s independent of the effect of cities.
by seizethecheese 6y ago
This paper specifically looks at before and after a sports team arrives, so it’s independent of the effect of cities.
- josephcsible 6y agoThe point was "cities increase it too", not "it's just cities and not sports teams".
- acituan 6y agoWhich doesn’t follow because people who attend to local sporting events don’t only do that in a city, and the increase in question is upon the baseline mortality of a city. So turns out cities have a lot of headroom to increase flu mortality based on what activities take place in them and we can’t conclude “cities” as a uniform entity do increase flu mortality with the data at hand. Before the impact of their health services kicked in, cities around the world did have different covid transmission patterns.