An incredible, one of a kind, natural epidemiological experiment took place in Croatia.
It would be unethical to abolish all the Covid measures in a territory, but it happened in a Croatian county due to a series of eartquakes.
@BallouxFrancois @MartinKulldorff
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A series of lethal eartquakes, the strongest measuring 6.2 ML, claimed 7 lives and a large demage, strongly affecting some 100,000 people. Immediately, on 28th December, thousands of volunteers from accross the country converged to the affected area.
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Nobody cared for any 'measures', including masks, saving lifes and property and organising life had priority. The Government abolished the prohibition on crossing counties' borders for the whole country, the measure introduced just several days earlier.
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18 days afterwards there is not even an uptick in registered cases, even though the testing was escalated due to an explosion of social contacts.
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5/4 Update 23-01-2021
Sisačko-moslavačka County cases DOWN 44% since before the eartquakes:
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