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A majority of deaths in the winter months will be elderly people with underlying health conditions that might have died from a flue or cold virus if covid was n
by christkv 5y ago
A majority of deaths in the winter months will be elderly people with underlying health conditions that might have died from a flue or cold virus if covid was not circulating. It's more interesting to see excess deaths for this winter. I have a hunch excess death rates will be similar to 2019.
- ptaipale 5y agoI don't think so, but we can quite well follow it up here, for most developed and semi-developed countries. https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&facet=none&pickerSort=asc&pickerMetric=location&Metric=Excess+mortality+%28count%29&Interval=Cumulative&Relative+to+Population=true&Align+outbreaks=false&country=FIN~SWE~USA~GBR~RUS~ROU~SGP~PER https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor... (As OWID relies on official data sources, they may be skewed or manipulated for undeveloped or autocratic countries)