Public hospitals need to be publicly reporting increased smoke pollution admissions and there needs to regular reports tabled on pollution-related deaths
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For example, you'd expect there to be more respiratory issues in 2019 because it's been a big flu year. Without correcting for that, you might just be seeing flu cases in your increase
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But 2019 data is included in the base line, and if the spike in cases is large enough, then none of that matters. I suspect it's off the charts, and any simple analysis will show it's off the charts.
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Except that I'd expect from baseline number to be out by over 6 standard deviations. i.e. You can just totally reject that it is an anomaly, and it isn't meaningless at all.
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I'd be very surprised if that was the case. Even if 10,000 people had respiratory hospitalizations directly related to the smoke, it'd probably be less than 2 SDs. There are tens of thousands of respiratory hospitalizations a month in both NSW and VIC
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