It's not a specious argument. Many countries are similarly recategorizing their death diagnosis. I have already had a discussion with you on this topic some days ago. It makes a big difference to the IFR and the justification for NPI measures.
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This paper gives an IFR of 0.4 at age 55, 1.3% at 65, so I don't see how you conclude remarkably high middle aged mortality.
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That's extremely high. The death rate for 50-64 from influenza estimated by the CDC is ~0.03%, which is about 13 times lower than the IFR for 55 year olds and 40 times lower than the IFR for 65 year olds from covid
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