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Excess Deaths in 2020

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Re: Excess Deaths in 2020

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For some reason Europe saw a lot fewer excess deaths in 2020. For example, in Germany it was only ~ +3%, and Sweden, which didn't lock down and had no mask mandates, had a lower death rate than in 2012: https://i.redd.it/73x3fysmu7k61.png

That's interesting, why is that?

Re: Excess Deaths in 2020

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post #7

For some reason Europe saw a lot fewer excess deaths in 2020. For example, in Germany it was only ~ +3%, and Sweden, which didn't lock down and had no mask mandates, had a lower death rate than in 2012: https://i.redd.it/73x3fysmu7k61.png

That's interesting, why is that?

Higher obesity in US maybe?

Re: Excess Deaths in 2020

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Why does it only go until 2015? This seems like data that would be better understood as per capita all cause mortality versus time over the last century. Anyone know where to find that plot?

Wouldn't you end up confounding a lot of different issues with that? Lifestyles and medicine has radically changed a fair bit in the last century, and so you'd end up with a bunch of confounding factors.
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