Daily death talles never went lower than 700 forty six and never higher than 799. In the united states, by contrast, they ranged from about 100 to 22 hundred in the same period. One would expect such a number to appear about once every two thousand 700 years if these were the result of a plasson process. So this casts even more shadows over the numbers that have been reported.
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