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[–]danuker 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This isn't funny to me.

In Italy, the regular death rate is about 622 thousand people per year. This translates to about 1704 per day.

But authorities say coronavirus killed 919 people in a 24-hour period ending on 2020-03-27.

This means the extra risk of death on that day was about 54% higher.