Infectious disease peeps, any explanation for the dramatic drop in the death rate in 1919, the year after the flu pandemic? Is it something that we can expect to see with covid?https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/23/us/covid-19-death-toll.html …
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That's a wild thing to guesstimate. If we were to know somehow that there won't be new variants (ooops), this idea of a slight bounce back might have been somewhat reasonable. But the alternative is a growing evidence of the negative effect of the long covid and complications
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Sorry, I realize I'm not really adding much here. One demographic thing to correct the perspective
@whsource: any death takes away years of life, on average 8—12 in the developed countries. We should apply the same excess logic to years of life lost. cc@jm_aburto - Show replies
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