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Re:Washington crews destroy first U.S. “murder hornet” nest by ethbr0 on Sunday October 25, 2020 @01:36PM (#24888144)
> It's hard to compare across countries. But mask-wearing Japan and South Korea have higher rates of flu and pneumonia deaths than the US/Canada/Europe

Possibly confounded by disparate population densities.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_depend...

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Re:Washington crews destroy first U.S. “murder hornet” nest by petertodd on Sunday October 25, 2020 @01:43PM (#24888211)
Belgium, the Netherlands, and Israel are all slightly less dense than South Korea, and more dense than Japan. Yet all three have significantly lower flu/pneumonia death rates than either South Korea or Japan.

Bangladesh also has a slightly lower flu/pneumonia death rate than Japan, even though it has 3x the density (though Bangladesh has a somewhat lower life expectancy (72) than Japan (84); Belgium, Netherlands, and Israel are all fairly close (80+) to Japan).

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Re:Washington crews destroy first U.S. “murder hornet” nest by appleseed538 on Sunday November 08, 2020 @05:59AM (#25024865)
Do you have a source for that?
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