Some of the thinking in my analysis of deaths in the UK may be of help?

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Is anyone aware of immunological changes in the last year of life?

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Has an unexplained increase in deaths since 2011 been reported in your country?

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How do you test for high/low behaviour in a time series?

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What are the typical error margins on common biochemical laboratory test results?

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Are there any researchers willing to investigate outbreaks of a new type of disease?

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Can anyone manipulate the parameters in infectious transmission models to see if they can replicate this unknown outbreak?

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Can anybody analyse the infectious spread of this new type of infection?

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Do health care costs follow long-term cycles?

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Hopefully you will include CMV IgG and IgM in the study?

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How can I separate Gertrud Pfister's profile and the profile of Gerald Gems?

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Why use both bead beating and enzymes (lysostaphin and lysozyme) for DNA extraction from sputum samples?

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Rodney P Jones

These are vastly complex events both in terms of spatial spread along social networks and effect on human health. Single year of age effects may arise from the original antigenic sin immune mechanisms. Those with dementia and Alzheimer's die in large numbers. I do not have the technical skills to take further since I do all the research in my spare time.