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For extra deaths of cancer?

Yes, coronavirus safety driven restrictions sometimes lead to hospitals lesser ability to handle common diseases like cancer.

This is the story from the UK, something like this might happen everywhere: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8848991/Dead-31-che...

UK didn’t deal well with covid

NZ hospitals have been fine.

> NZ hospitals have been fine.

So every organisation from kindergartens to factories was affected by coronavirus, but hospitals were not affected at all? I don't believe so.

Short term results of hundreds of thousands dead... I'm not sure excess cancer deaths would ever eclipse that.

NZ has has 1/8900 of the US death toll. We have 1/66th the US population.

It’s hard to argue that our response is going to cause more deaths than the US response. It almost feels like cheating to compare NZ to USA where covid is concerned.