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Originally Posted by knight rider
Would the Omicron strain have a part in why deaths are down - it spreads faster and is less deadly - makes sense to me
maybe if trying to find a correlation to which countries fair better or even states by states - population density plays a big roll and even how they live  |
Absolutely it does although that impact was probably only evident for the last month of 2021 so you'd expect more flow on in the next few months.
For example, Australia (thus far) shows a raw CMR in 2022 of 0.024% and although the 14-day adjusted CMR is probably closer to 0.064% that's still orders of magnitude ahead of 2021 - about 80% lower in fact.