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Yeah, that makes sense - sometimes I really want to smash the media guys so hard.

But I also wonder if I person dies in a hospital, isn't shouldn't there be a legal course of death on the death certificate? Because then we might have something to compare with.

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Trying to draw trends from a single cause of death is much harder than it sounds. Particularly in the case of things like influenza, which rarely kill anyone directly.

What you'd really need are actual electronic medical records, so you could track symptoms, progression, treatments, etc.

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