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There is excess death due to influenza every year. Right. And the flu deaths will be on top of the COVID deaths. The number of dead due to covid-19 is not some kind of crazy anomaly that's going to stick out in the statistics. Yes it is. I don't know who @FrankfurtZack is beyond how he describes himself: "armchair virologist. hobbyvirologe, hobbystaatsepidemiologe". He has one post on Medium and that's it. Here are s…
"going back to 2017" is a very short window. The European excess mortality data I've seen does show COVID as a fairly significant spike in a 5-year context, but even just "zooming out" to 10 years makes it fairly insignificant.
Okay, but the above is US data. It’s a significant spike given the time window shown.
Also, reputable link to the European data you refer to?