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Re:European mortality monitoring shows increase in excess mo... by ekianjo on Friday April 24, 2020 @06:02AM (#22966380)
> So I'm not sure if the net effect of the lockdown on mortality is actually expected to be positive or negative.

Wouldn't this kind of graphs precisely answer the question, since deaths are not just related to COVID19 only?

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Re:European mortality monitoring shows increase in excess mo... by jon-v on Friday April 24, 2020 @06:58AM (#22966689)
The main effect we expect to see on excess mortality is not from the lockdown, but from the overloading of the health care systems.
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Re:European mortality monitoring shows increase in excess mo... by DangerousPie on Friday April 24, 2020 @06:33AM (#22966538)
No, because you don't know how many of these deaths are COVID19-related deaths that just weren't counted in the official figures for some reason.
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