Your analogy is off. We're not dealing with guns but rather a natural phenomenon. Now if those same guns, lets say 5 Alpha and 5 Delta, were firing at the same time, population, body part and area with 1 resulting in fewer fatalities per strike then it would be reasonable to assume that gun to be less deadly.I just want to point out that your sentence has some faulty logic, that's like saying because a new model of a gun has less fatalities than an older model over the same period, the new gun is less deadly (when both are equally deadly). There are a lot of other factors involved, which cannot be controlled in order to therefore have a controlled environment to compare against.
Note that I can't say whether one or the other is deadlier, but case fatality numbers is just one aspect amongst a lot of other factors for determination.
Be that as it may... The data in question was collated over the same period, the same regions and the same population. You'd be hard pressed to find better data than that.
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