Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline
by TeMPOraL on Sunday May 24, 2020 @08:37AM
(#23291083)
You can filter out deaths by suicide and similar, of which there isn't many so far (but yes, maybe the lockdown will kill more; it hasn't now). You kind of already have to filter out things like deaths by traffic accidents, of which there's much less now.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline
by guscost on Sunday May 24, 2020 @01:51PM
(#23293204)
Only 8% fewer traffic deaths in March: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...
And consider that heart attack and stroke centers are seeing precipitous drops in patient referrals, almost certainly meaning that the fear of catching COVID-19 is causing many people to avoid treatment and die at home: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/patients-with-heart-at...