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The chart that shows excess mortality seems to have much more volatility than I would expect. Why can't this simply be noise? As an aside - I'd be very intere
by onlyrealcuzzo 5y ago
The chart that shows excess mortality seems to have much more volatility than I would expect.
Why can't this simply be noise?
As an aside - I'd be very interested to see the excess deaths by cause. Could it be possible that some or a lot of these deaths were actually people that got Covid but had no symptoms?
- roenxi 5y agoThe last table in the paper is a one-sided t-test, where they get a 89-97% chance that the gap is not random. EDIT Included the whole range
- gus_massa 5y agoThe problem comes from grouping Hungary with Israel and the United Kingdom. More details in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28103813 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28103813
- anonuser123456 5y agoWhich is doubly problematic given that UK & Hungry have a completely different vaccine than Israel.
- MatteoFrigo 5y agoThe graphs at https://euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps https://euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps should give you some idea of the typical behavior of excess mortality in many countries in Europe and adjacent regions (including Israel), by age group, by week. At least from a cursory look, there doesn't seem to be anything nefarious going on in Israel.