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Okay, I was going to do a Taxing Tuesday, but screw it, I’m going to indulge myself.
It’s the eleventh day of Christmas! Party! Time for those pipers!
It started, as it does, with a tweet:
a follower (coreylf) asked me...
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Key takeaway: I estimate about 3.3 million deaths for 2020 in the United States, with my range being 14% to 16% higher than total 2019 deaths.
The CDC, as of December 30, 2020, had recorded over 3 million deaths for 2020.
If you...
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Some people have been asking me about some pretty stupid COVID “memes” going around, one so stupid that Facebook actually broke out fact-checking on it. So stupid that SLATE of all places debunked it.
This is really not the season for this sort of thing, and I’m going to...
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First up, a notice: I will be doing a Twitter conversation with R. Dale Hall of the Society of Actuaries and Magali Barbieri of the Human Mortality Database:
Unfortunately, the United States is about to reach and exceed 3,000,000 deaths for the first time in a single...
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I’m trying to tease apart all the sources of extra mortality for 2020, and while digging through my old files, I found my old posts on Chicago homicides:
I was wondering how...
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From the title itself, you must know some unhappy stuff is coming. But don’t worry — I end with some happy stuff (that’s Dolly Parton)
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I’m getting extremely angry over COVID mortality items again, and there is a lot of blame to go around.
I have seen this in multiple places, and I will link to only one version of this, because this is the one I’ve seen shared most often.
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I have written about the sex gap in normal mortality before, with June 2017’s Mortality Monday: The Sex Gap in Death, which I wrote a couple of months before Stu was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer.
So before I get into the differences in mortality in the U.S. between...
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In my prior post on COVID death impacts, Mortality with Meep: Comparing COVID-19 with Historical Mortality and Prior Pandemics , I looked solely at the total number of deaths and the percentage change in those deaths year-over-year.
The result: total deaths for 2020 is likely about 10%...
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My usual way to do a post is to go chronologically, building up from a base, and working toward a conclusion.
I’m going to give you my conclusions first, and then, if you’re interested, you can read how I got there.
I have shown this...
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