Which doesn’t follow because people who attend to local sporting events don’t only do that in a city, and the increase in question is upon the baseline mortality of a city. So turns out cities have a lot of headroom to increase flu mortality based on what activities take place in them and we can’t conclude “cities” as a uniform entity do increase flu mortality with the data at hand.

Before the impact of their health services kicked in, cities around the world did have different covid transmission patterns.