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Re:Why do Covid fatalities remain low when infection numbers... by Barrin92 on Monday August 24, 2020 @09:55AM (#24260656)
> then death rates do spike because they always lag tests by a month

I don't think that is entirely accurate either. If you look at France for example[1] rates have steadily been climbing for six weeks again and yet there's not even a blip in deaths, and the corresponding rise in deaths in the first wave also did not trail infections by much, same in Spain where there doesn't even appear to be a lag[2]. Pretty much all countries I checked didn't lag deaths much at all. It may very well also be the case that we missed a ton of covid infections during the first wave.

[1]https://covid19.who.int/region/euro/country/fr

[2]https://covid19.who.int/region/euro/country/es

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Re:Why do Covid fatalities remain low when infection numbers... by tonyedgecombe on Monday August 24, 2020 @10:19AM (#24260898)
Supply of tests was constrained at the start of the epidemic so you might be reading too much into that.
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