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Re:Europe's Vaccine Disaster by simonh on Saturday January 30, 2021 @01:01AM (#25966647)
That's the number with restrictions, lockdowns, curfews, etc, etc. In other words while Serbia was hit fairly badly, relatively speaking, the mitigation measures largely worked. This is not a good argument against mitigation measures.

The Spanish Flu seems to have similar case mortality rates and efforts to implement preventive measures were hampered by the war time conditions so it's a good candidate to compare against when considering the effectiveness of preventive measures. It's spread lead to from 17x to 50x as many deaths as we've seen from the coronavirus at the global level. In India where lockdown measures weren't significant 5% of the population died.

Re:Europe's Vaccine Disaster by thu2111 on Saturday January 30, 2021 @06:18PM (#25974040)
No, mitigation measures have had no effect:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.6043...

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5...

etc. And there are many more.

I know it doesn't seem to make sense, but lockdowns have had no impact on mortality. This is seen when examining all the data. Consider Sweden - very little government suppression, and it's got a basically average outcome. In fact when analysed properly they don't have much excess death in 2020:

https://softwaredevelopmentperestroika.wordpress.com/2021/01...