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Old 11-24-2020, 10:37am   #49497
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Originally Posted by Steve_R View Post
What will the explanation be when the total number of deaths in 2020 is essentially the same as the past several years instead of at least 300,000 higher?

That one's easy: some of the people who died with COVID would have died anyway from one of their other co-morbidities, hence the excess death count is lower than you might naively expect.
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