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Isn't excess mortality the aggregate? That was way up in 2020 (in the US at least) no? How is this moving death around?
by foo_barrio 5y ago
Isn't excess mortality the aggregate? That was way up in 2020 (in the US at least) no? How is this moving death around?
- illys 5y agoI am not in the figures but I understand "moving death around" this way: If you do not properly hospitalize serious Covid patients, you get more Covid death... If you properly treat them, you postpone the treatment of other sicknesses and increase death count in another population. Then you keep an excess mortality that just moves around.
- foo_barrio 5y agoBut excess mortality is the total. It's not the slice of the pie where if you grow one, the other shrinks, it IS the pie no? There was an huge bump in excess mortality year-over-year. If it was moved around you'd expect the total of all the dips to come close to the bump? That's not what has been observed. So something caused more people to die than usual. What is it? (rhetorical question not asking directly).