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Quite a large difference in excess deaths compared to the other study with New Zealand being especially striking (+6588 from the OECD study vs -440 in the econo
by welterde 4y ago
Quite a large difference in excess deaths compared to the other study with New Zealand being especially striking (+6588 from the OECD study vs -440 in the economist one).
The analysis code and description for the study I linked to can be found here [1], which is always nice to see.
And browsing through different scientific studies on excess deaths I see negative values for NZ much more often than positive values (see for example [2]), so I am thinking that the OECD study is more of an outlier here (see [3] for a meta-analysis).
[1] https://github.com/TheEconomist/covid-19-excess-deaths-tracker https://github.com/TheEconomist/covid-19-excess-deaths-track...
[2] https://elifesciences.org/articles/69336.pdf https://elifesciences.org/articles/69336.pdf
[3] https://mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/vaccines/vaccines-10-01702/article_deploy/vaccines-10-01702-v2.pdf?version=1665646646 https://mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/vaccines/vaccines-10-01702...
- ghaff 4y agoThe striking thing about The Economist list is that, while you can point to various data points and come up with a rationale why one might be low or another might be high (e.g. NZ is a small island nation that pretty much closed its borders). overall there really isn't much of a pattern. What is it about the Balkans that puts them towards the top of the list? Why did Lithuania fare significantly worse than Estonia? And while Sweden did a bit worse than Norway and Denmark, it did better than Finland in terms of excess deaths percentage.