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Re:Estimation of total mortality due to COVID-19 by mschuster91 on Friday May 07, 2021 @04:02PM (#27080273)
> Excess deaths counts have been consistently showing negative in countries during periods of time where they have coronavirus under control.

> Other significant causes of death (including suicide, influenza, road traffic accidents) appear to be down.

That's most probably a direct factor of the containment measures. Influenza has been on sometimes historic lows (https://www.who.int/influenza/surveillance_monitoring/update...), and as many people have stayed home streets have been free and people don't drive home from bars totally drunk, both drastically reducing road accidents.

Suicides however? These are going up by some indications (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-01042-z), as is domestic violence (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7195322/).

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Re:Estimation of total mortality due to COVID-19 by yyyk on Friday May 07, 2021 @07:05PM (#27081819)
Suicides rates are the same or down in most of the world[0], and were apparently reduced in the US during the pandemic[1].

[0] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0...

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.13.21251682v...

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