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Mortality with Meep: Top Causes of Death in the United States in 2020  

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Before I begin, let me remind you of my post from October 2020:

Even if all the COVID deaths stop now (they won’t), it looks like COVID will be #3 on the cause of death list for the U.S. in 2020, after cancer and heart disease.

Yes, cancer...

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Mortality with Meep: Ranking the States (and NYC and DC) by Excess Mortality  

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Death data for 2020 are mostly there for all states, so let us look at how hard each was hit for the full year. The CDC’s update of 31 March 2021 in their excess mortality dashboard has total numbers available for almost all geographies through the end of...

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Mortality with Meep: Likelihood of Senate Control Changing Due to Death  

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I saw this piece on the Daily Poster, and this is just baiting to me, given the mortality hook: Dems Could Lose Their Majority At Any Moment

Many pundits are already suggesting the Democrats’ control of Congress will only last until the 2022 midterm elections. But a single, unforeseen Senate...

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Cuomo Killing the Disabled and the Elderly: This Time It's Personal  

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I was going to run this one this weekend, but I’m doing this now as we may be reaching a tipping point with Gov. Cuomo, if only from the sexual harassment charges.

As many people have pointed out, it shouldn’t be the sexual harassment that gets him booted (though,...

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Mortality with Meep: the Society of Actuaries Studies 2020 Excess Mortality, Life Expectancy Rebuttal, and More  

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If you like keeping up with mortality news, check out the mortality category on Actuarial News.

I’ve picked out a few of these recent stories that you may also find interesting.

Society of Actuaries Report on 2020 U.S. Excess Mortality

The Society of Actuaries has been putting out a lot of...

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Mortality with Meep: Digging into CDC report on mortality in the first half of 2020  

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While we wait for North Carolina and Connecticut to get up-to-date on reporting deaths, the CDC has collected enough data from the first half of 2020 to release the following paper:

Provisional Life Expectancy Estimates for January through June, 2020

In the first half of 2020, life expectancy...

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COVID Mortality: New York, Nursing Homes, and Cuomo  

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Here’s the latest “news”, and I can’t say I’m shocked:

Cuomo aide admits they hid nursing home data so feds wouldn’t find out

Governor Cuomo’s top aide privately apologized to Democratic lawmakers for withholding the state’s nursing-home death toll from COVID-19 — telling them “we froze” out of fear the...

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Mortality with Meep: On The Congressional Body of Old Folks and Deaths in Office  

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I just got this news alert: Sen. Richard Shelby Will Not Run for Reelection in 2022

Senator Richard Shelby (R., Ala.) announced on Monday that he will not run for reelection in 2022.

Shelby is the third Republican senator to say he will not seek reelection at the end of his...

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Mortality with Meep: Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, and Michigan by Race/Ethnicity and Week  

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Let’s round out the top ten states in population by graphing out the relative mortality experience of the remaining 6 states.

For each state, I will just share the graph of the percentage excess mortality for non-Hispanic Whites, non-Hispanic Blacks, and Hispanics.

Pennsylvania mortality experience

We can see that Pennsylvania...

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Mortality with Meep: Excess Mortality in California, Texas, and Florida by Race/Ethnicity  

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In my last post, I covered excess mortality from NYC and New York state. New York City was the epicenter of a really bad COVID spread, with a huge spike in mortality that disproportionately affected Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Blacks.

We’re going to see disproportionate effects in other...

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