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aianus on May 24, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decl...

> there were more COVID19 deaths than there were "excess" deaths

This still makes sense if the lockdown has lowered other causes of death like car crashes.

pgwhalen on May 25, 2020 [–]

Fair point. Though the excess seems to already eclipse car crash deaths in their entirety, and I'm not sure if other major causes of accidental deaths (e.g. drug overdoses) would really be expected to go down during a lockdown.

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