> I think your math is off. What if the first population only has 458 people in it? I think your thinking is off. How do you get 57,263 other deaths in a popu

> I think your math is off. What if the first population only has 458 people in it? I think your thinking is off. How do you get 57,263 other deaths in a population of 458? This data is not comparing population sizes. It avoids it by comparing your chance of dying to covid to something else that is supposed stable between populations -- chance of dying to all other causes. We just need to know that population sizes being compared are large enough (as evidenced from the number of deaths included) to be statistically significant.