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Back in June, I did a podcast episode on lightning strike deaths.
STUMP – DEATH AND TAXES
Lightning Strike Deaths
MARY PAT CAMPBELL
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JUN 17
Lightning Strike Deaths
Listen now (28 min) | Lightning strike deaths have decreased by over 80%...
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I’ve seen this paper going around recently: Excess Death Rates for Republican and Democratic Registered Voters in Florida and Ohio During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Let me drop the abstract here:
Importance There is evidence that Republican-leaning counties have had higher COVID-19 death rates than Democratic-leaning counties and similar...
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NY Times: Fighting for Anthony: The Struggle to Save Portland, Oregon/The city has long grappled with street homelessness and a shortage of housing. Now fentanyl has turned a perennial problem into a deadly crisis and a challenge to the city’s progressive identity, 29 July 2023 by Michael Corkery
In 2022,...
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First, an attempt to deceive… or just incompetent graph-making.
A research paper in The Lancet seems straightforward enough.
Background
Heat and cold are established environmental risk factors for human health. However, mapping the related health burden...
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As a follow-up to the ranking tables I posted a few days ago, let’s look at how these tables look when split by sex.
The rates are definitely very different, but the rank orders also differ.
But first…
Glenn Cooke, aka The Term Guy, has been scanning in some of...
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Ranking tables for the top 10 causes of death for 2022 for the whole U.S. population, as well as by age group. Giving counts and rates.
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I’ve been on vacation this week (did you notice?), and I thought CDC WONDER wouldn’t update until next week.
I was wrong.
Anyway, I have good enough data for 2022 now to update all my cause-of-death analyses for 2022. But more on that in a moment.
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I was planning to have a follow-up to my earlier post on drowning, but recent news has pushed me to look closer at one aspect of these deaths:
Fox News: Former NFL quarterback Ryan Mallett dead after drowning in Florida
Former NFL quarterback Ryan Mallett has reportedly died...
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Earlier today I saw the following tweet:
#STATOFTHEDAY #Suicide rate for U.S. males increased 25% from 18.2 (per 100,000) in 2001 to 22.8 in 2021 https://t.co/ftlKvYZndy #mentalhealth #menshealthmonth pic.twitter.com/67eKf2992k
— NCHS (@NCHStats) June 12, 2023
I had been...
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Hello, new readers! If you haven’t seen this, check out an orientation to this substack. That will get you familiar with the common topics here — including DEATH.
There was an update today to CDC WONDER, the main database for death statistics that I use, so...
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