• FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    "Hmm, what does '29.9% over what was predicted' actually mean? Maybe the comments will clear that up..."

    -Sees the majority of the number of comments are blaming lockdowns and vaccines :shinji-screm:

    and even worse when the linked article more or less directly debunks their claim (they say since the data applies to the second year and that's also when the vaccine came out, so B caused A)

    U.S. deaths attributed to heart attacks, or acute myocardial infarctions as they are medically known, shot up 14% to 164,096 in the first year of the pandemic, April 1, 2020, to Mar 31, 2021.

    Individuals who were vaccinated were 200 times less likely to have a stroke after having the respiratory disease. Those who had severe cases of COVID-19 were at a much greater risk of experiencing inflammation, blood clots and heart disease