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Re:35% of excess deaths from pandemic not caused by Covid-19 by ouid on Friday July 10, 2020 @11:58AM (#23792857)
well, there are lots of diseases that aren't comorbid with covid, and the author pointed to no spikes in deaths from those diseases.

Suicide is not responsible for any appreciable fraction of that 35%. The article doesn't mention suicide at all, and it would be so extraordinarily anomalous if suicides were suddenly on par with heart disease that that would be the only possible title of this article if they were.

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Re:35% of excess deaths from pandemic not caused by Covid-19 by jtbayly on Friday July 10, 2020 @12:43PM (#23793371)
FTA: "and some may have died by suicide"

Also, I already quoted it above. You said all of the things mentioned were comorbidities. They aren't.

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