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		kzrdude on April 22, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The epidemiologist behind Sweden’s controversial c... Two different ways to present the deaths: attributed to the date of death, or attributed to the date they were reported by FHM.

viceroyalbean on April 23, 2020 [–]

That makes sense, though I would advice against the latter way since it will show massive dips and spikes due to variation in reporting. Notably, the reports dip every weekend and there was a huge dip over Easter that took ages to get caught up.

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