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Take that paper with a grain of salt.

If you look at their stillbirth rate in the whole of 2017 (rather than an arbitrarily short period immediately before covid), you find their stillbirth rate was 4.21 per 1,000.

They went from 4.21 in 2017, to 2.38 in a few months in 2019, then 9.31 in 2020?

The UK hasn't really been improving in stillbirth rates, so it would be very impressive if they'd halved theirs.

Source, the UK's national perinatal death surveillance report (pdf, page 88): https://www.npeu.ox.ac.uk/assets/downloads/mbrrace-uk/report...

Would 4.21 -> 9.32 still have been significant on that small a sample size?


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