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Biotech / Medical : Coronavirus / COVID-19 Pandemic
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Excess deaths are down — below average — for those younger than eighteen

by Tyler Cowen
Marginal Revolution
July 10, 2020 at 1:33 pm

In the United States that is, link here, from Lyman Stone, photo here:


In other words, lockdown and shelter at home have limited some of the otherwise risky activities that young people engage in.

Excess deaths more generally seem to have reached a normal range, albeit at the upper end of that range:



I wouldn’t want to call this “good news,” but it is one form of putting the current situation into perspective.

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