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Re:Coronavirus and Credibility by akvadrako on Monday April 06, 2020 @08:37AM (#22793153)
It does because regional fluctuations don't warrant a widespread overreaction.

Overall mortality for Europe is lower than during most flu seasons:

https://www.euromomo.eu/

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Re:Coronavirus and Credibility by graeme on Monday April 06, 2020 @02:28PM (#22796396)
That’s for week 13. I expect france would be higher now.

Week 13 is march 22-28 if I counted right. Deaths lag cases. French Coronavirus deaths went from 674 on the 22nd, to 2314 on the 28th, to 8078 yesterday april 5th.

I would say your comment is premature.

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Re:Coronavirus and Credibility by takeda on Monday April 06, 2020 @02:35PM (#22796463)
Because if no coronavirus this would be rather a good year. The December-February looked better than on average.

The thing you are missing though is that crisis started mid March. It feels like forever (because of shelter at home), but it is a very short time and every few days the number of cases doubles. Most of that doesn't register on graphs that spans multiple years (look at the dates).

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