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I’ve tried googling this but couldn’t understand. How exactly did evacuations kill people? Was it just people being moved out of hospitals that needed to be in

• grozzle 4y ago
  Yes, and the stress of being uprooted. There was a large surplus of deaths in the evacuated population over the next year, without any sign of a radiogenic disease. Communities being scattered suddenly, the stress of losing homes and homeland.
  • Manuel_D 4y ago
    Do you have any reliable statistics showing that there were surplus deaths? Most of the research I've read showed ~1,500 deaths - mostly among aged 75+ people - over 6 months out of a cohort of 300,000 people. This is not a surplus over normal death rates.
• Manuel_D 4y ago
  The statistics is largely bunk. Out of 300k people, 1,600 died of old age. News outlets just assumed that all these people died due to the evacuation. The original research was retracted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34096908 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34096908
  • jvanderbot 4y ago
    This is excellent to know! Thank you.