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Re:Sweden: higher Covid-19 death rate while failing to colle... by bosie on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @06:40PM (#23764992)
Considering that the health care systems were partially shut down too, how do you determine that covid was the culprit rather a change in the health care system for those counted as excess deaths?
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Re:Sweden: higher Covid-19 death rate while failing to colle... by sixo on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @06:42PM (#23765022)
Those are covid deaths
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Re:Sweden: higher Covid-19 death rate while failing to colle... by throwaway0a5e on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @08:17PM (#23765753)
No. Those are "reaction to COVID" deaths or just normal deaths.

If you order an island evacuated because of an impending natural disaster and some people die in the evacuation they died from the evacuation, not the disaster. Just because your actions are lowering the overall body count doesn't mean the deaths are the fault of whatever disaster the people died avoiding.

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