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bullwinkle428

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2. I'm personally paying more attention to the UK, as the population demographics

Reply to Loki Liesmith (Original post)

Sun Dec 19, 2021, 11:15 AM

Dec 2021

are a bit more similar in terms of age, distribution of ethnicity, etc.

Case levels exploding, but too early to determine effect on hospitalizations and deaths.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/

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I'm personally paying more attention to the UK, as the population demographics bullwinkle428 Dec 2021 #2

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