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pjcv··on European mortality monitoring shows increase in excess mortality
The data here seems to corroborate this: https://www.isciii.es/QueHacemos/Servicios/VigilanciaSaludPu...

It would be interesting to see if previous years exhibited similar hotspots.

pjcv··on Holes in Bayesian Statistics
> However, in that framework, in many cases you're still often left with uniform priors, which then reduce to frequentist statistics.

Several commenters have made this claim, which seems to be true only for maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimates. Frequentist methods do not construct a distribution over parameters.