Coronavirus - Overall
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@mariner4life banned?
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@mariner4life more your thing isnt it, or dildos at least
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@mariner4life banned?
Whipped. Figuratively and literally.
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Listening to an Economist podcast.
Australia and NZ, developed countries with good data to have completed a flu season so far. Down by 80%. (Podcast used the term "4/5ths")
Australia normally had 86,000 flu cases, this year had 620. 1 flu death, normally 120. (That is a heck of a lot more than 4/5ths ....)
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@Rapido said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Listening to an Economist podcast.
Australia and NZ, developed countries with good data to have completed a flu season so far. Down by 80%.
Australia normally had 86,000 flu cases, this year had 620. 1 flu death, normally 120.
How many of those were taken by covid instead?
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Podcast asked if flu testing was down? Because of focus on corona testing.
Flu testing was down by 20%.
Or are you asking how many of the flu deaths were taken by covid instead? Yeah, would have to guess "some". Somewhere between "some" and "most.
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@antipodean quite interesting results. Even if all those that would normally die from flu succumbed to COVID there's still large surplus deaths - even with all the social distancing and other protective measures in place Certainly in % terms
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@Rapido said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Podcast asked if flu testing was down? Because of focus on corona testing.
Flu testing was down by 20%.
Or are you asking how many of the flu deaths were taken by covid instead? Yeah, would have to guess "some". Somewhere between "some" and "most.
Doesn't surprise me that there was a significant decline due to less travel and social distancing. I'd hazard a guess we're still in front given the reported virulence of covid-19
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@Kiwiwomble must be slow internet at his work!
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Russia's exceess mortality:
But data released by the Rosstat State Statistics Service on Sept. 4 show there were 57,800 excess deaths between May and July, the peak of the outbreak.
The figure was calculated by comparing fatalities over those three months in 2020 with the average number of May-July deaths between 2015 and 2019. The excess total is more than three times greater than the official May-July COVID-19 death toll of 15,955.
It's not horrendous. 57k in a big country. But a dose of reality compared to the official figures.
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Sweden's 'dry tinder'.
But what happens when a country has a few light influenza seasons in a row? Just like branches gathering on the forest floor, the result is a build-up of “dry tinder.”
Interesting article and study. However I'd caution. As the EUROMOMO graphs in the article show, their neighbours also had the same amount of dry tinder.
Can see euromomo graphs here:
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NZ flu hospitalisation numbers, relevant to discussion earlier.