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Ok, I have had a tough week (don’t worry, it has nothing to do with you guys), so let me re-run a silly post.
I am not updating this one with additional data [except for Sean Bean’s current age].
This post originally ran in March 2017.
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A couple video explainers and a spreadsheet so you can visualize mortality spikes driven by COVID-19.
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I look at patterns in total deaths to see that yes, COVID-19 is making a big impact in particular countries and cities.
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I pull out 6 major figures from the Final Data on U.S. Deaths for 2017, which treats with major mortality trends in the United States.
Also, the St. Matthew Passion.
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Meep discuses total death numbers for U.S., for a “baseline” year. People can then use these numbers to make comparisons in reporting on COVID-19.
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Meep looks at one of the most-used COVID-19 models for projections in the U.S. Models can have a lot of uncertainty in them, and these certainly do. The point of the models are as tools to look at potential results.
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I may (or may not) do something more involved later, but I thought I’d share some of the materials I’ve found the last few weeks re: COVID-19 and its deadliness and infectiousness.
COVID-19: MIDDLE OF THE PACK
This is not an attempt to make people feel better...
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Given Biden scored quite a decisive victory in South Carolina, I will evaluate the situation of a Biden-Sanders ticket in terms of mortality.
Using the handy-dandy Longevity Illustrator, I am putting in the info for both Joe & Bernie.
JOE AND BERNIE PROJECTION: AVERAGE
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World Cancer Day was last week, and I’m here with some good news: people are living longer with cancer.THE ACTUARIAL PERSPECTIVE
When I taught actuarial science students at UConn, and talked to them about actuarial topics (I taught two separate classes: one on computing (Excel, Access, by meep
I last updated this in 2019. So why not do a new calculation, now that we’ve got a slate of old, white men (and an old, white woman, and some younger folks who we don’t really care about survivability for). Prior posts of similar type:Presidential Mortality: 2020 Update -- These Candidates are Old
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