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Feb 12 4 tweets 2 min read
Interesting chart of decreasingly deadly virus via @tomhcalver thetimes.co.uk/article/five-s…
(Log scale)
And a v important table, also from @tomhcalver
All that self-hatred about the "worst death toll in Europe" turned out to be overdone on Chris Whitty's all-cause excess deaths figures

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