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Re:Tracking excess mortality during Covid-19 pandemic with W... by detaro on Saturday August 07, 2021 @05:48AM (#28097263)
Excess mortality is not at all influenced by how deaths are classified, that is the point of why people are looking at it... So that quote makes no sense as a reaction to the statement. If there were a policy of not recording any deaths as COVID-19, the excess mortality would be exactly the same!
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Re:Tracking excess mortality during Covid-19 pandemic with W... by forcry on Saturday August 07, 2021 @05:55AM (#28097303)
True. Got confused.
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