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Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, epidemiologist, University of Wollongong, Australia.
David Ropeik, retired Harvard University instructor; author, How Risky Is It, Really? Why Our Fears Don’t Always Match the Facts.
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Source: https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200901/what-changing-death-rates-tell-us-about-covid?src=RSS_PUBLIC