• Skua@kbin.earth
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      22 days ago

      It doesn’t look that close to me

      • Finland: lowest death rate on the southern coast, which is almost the country’s highest Chernobyl exposure

      • Poland: almost an inverse correlation within the country, not to mention that it got one of the highest doses overall but isn’t particularly high on the death rates

      • Bulgaria and Hungary: low exposures, very high death rates

      • Turkiye and Georgia: high death rates, little to no exposure

      Like, yes, there is a general correlation of more east = higher death rates and also higher doses, but there’s too much other stuff going on in the details for that to be the explanation by itself

      • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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        22 days ago

        We’ll have to wait for other peer reviewed research for causation. Still wouldn’t shock me of there was some link.