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Re:The Covid-19 pandemic is worse than official figures show by thu2111 on Friday September 25, 2020 @06:53AM (#24588533)
Isn't it more likely that deaths from other kinds of respiratory diseases are being re-classified as COVID?
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Re:The Covid-19 pandemic is worse than official figures show by mcgt on Friday September 25, 2020 @01:46PM (#24592263)
My thoughts were the same, but nothing I've seen (yet) would suggest that. Though deaths by dementia seem to be up far above the 5 year average (especially in the Southern US).

Total mortality up to Aug 15 is up at least 580k over the 5 year average from what I'm seeing right now, fwiw. Probably will post it here on HN once I've got everything tied together.

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