35% of excess deaths from pandemic not caused by Covid-19

Re:35% of excess deaths from pandemic not caused by Covid-19 by nutjob2 on Friday July 10, 2020 @10:45AM (#23791953)

I don't see how an excess death caused indirectly by the virus is different to one caused directly, when measuring broadly (ie not for epidemiological purposes).

Those people died because of the virus, and the cost of the virus in lives should be measured that way.

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Re:35% of excess deaths from pandemic not caused by Covid-19 by jtbayly on Friday July 10, 2020 @10:55AM (#23792086)

One of the important questions that comes up with this data is whether excessive fear of Covid-19 is leading to many other unnecessary deaths. It is not clear what percent of these 35% would fall into that category.

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