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Re:SARS-CoV-2 was already spreading in France in late Decemb... by gpderetta on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @06:59AM (#23078637)
>[...] look at the longer term data for a hard-hit country like the UK, where there are a lot of lockdown-created excess deaths due to excessively underloading the hospitals

talk about ridiculous claims.

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Re:SARS-CoV-2 was already spreading in France in late Decemb... by iso947 on Friday May 08, 2020 @01:40PM (#23117384)
There may be some basis in that. Excess deaths in the UK on a weekly level are higher than expected the number of covid deaths on a death certificate.

However this is only really in over 60s

The explanations would be

1) more covid deaths than have been mentioned on death certificate 2) more deaths from other reasons

I haven’t seen any detailed breakdown of cause of death other than “covid mentioned” (and thus not mentioned)

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