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Re:Sweden: higher Covid-19 death rate while failing to colle... by notatoad on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @02:00AM (#23767292)
there are additional deaths that can be attributed to the lockdown, as well as some reductions in deaths that can be attributed to the lockdown. but neither are anything close to on the same scale as people actually dying of covid.

there's obviously some margin of error, but it's pretty safe to treat the unattributed excess deaths as being caused by covid-19

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Re:Sweden: higher Covid-19 death rate while failing to colle... by kolinko on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @02:40AM (#23767497)
+1 - countries that introduced strict lockdowns early on have no excess deaths.
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