Chris Waldburger

Chris Waldburger

What are your chances of dying from covid?

Data is not the plural of stories you hear on social media.

Aug 18, 2021
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It may surprise you, or even offend you, but it is a statistical fact that in 2020 Britain had its twelfth lowest mortality rate of all time:

From the UK Office of National Statistics

Adjusted for age and population, 2020 was the same as 2008, and if you take 2019 and 2020 as a pair, the two years together had a very low death rate. (A low death rate in 2…

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