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Childhood Mortality Trends, 1999-2021 (provisional), Ages 1-17 -- Good News for Young Kids, Not for Teens  

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There was the monthly update of the provisional deaths data at CDC WONDER last week, and I’ve been pulling data.

There is still bad news in there for 2021, and I’m reading the tea leaves for 2022 (still bad signs on homicides, drug ODs, etc.) so I thought...

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Misleading Gun Death Stats: "Gun Mortality" State Rankings  

by meep

The CDC has a “gun mortality” map, which includes gun suicides as well as homicides. There are a lot more gun suicides than homicides, and this may give you a wrong impression.

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Misleading Gun Death Stats: "Kids'" gun deaths vs. motor vehicle deaths  

by meep

For obvious reasons, we’re seeing a bunch of people throwing around gun death statistics.

Unfortunately, some are misleading.

Guns kill more “kids” than motor vehicles do

If you define “kids” as being age 1-19 years old.

I generally don’t.

The original source of this should be like me, that is, from people who know...

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All Men Must Die, But They Don't Have to Die in Office  

by meep

The hook: House passes two Alaska bills sponsored by late-Rep. Don Young

The House on Tuesday passed two bills sponsored by the late Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), who died last month after serving 49 years in the House.

The bills — dubbed the Alaska Salmon Research Task Force Act and the...

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Pools are more dangerous than Covid to small children  

by meep

I am getting a bit tired of people assume that a small, non-zero risk is a huge risk.

Upon hearing that a federal judge knocked down a fiat regulation that he liked, one person decided to enact a small twitter drama:

Hi united</a>. <br><br>When I bought my tickets...

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2021 U.S. Mortality News Explainer: Death Rates, Life Expectancy, and More  

by meep

It seems the news is catching up with me. Hello, News!

From AP News yesterday: COVID-19, overdoses pushed US to highest death total ever:

2021 was the deadliest year in U.S. history, and new data and research are offering more insights into how it got that bad.

The main reason for...

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Why Has Teen Mortality Increased 31% in 2 Years in the U.S.?  

by meep

Spoiler: it’s not COVID.

This was going to be a post about pediatric mortality in general. But I changed my mind.

Look at the following graph:

From 2019 to 2021, in provisional statistics, the death rate for those age 15 to 17 increased 31%. That represents an increase...

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Preliminary results for 2021 All-Cause U.S. Mortality: 21% More Deaths than 2019, 2% More Deaths than 2020  

by meep

Rather than wait for the next refresh of the provisional mortality database at CDC WONDER (which should happen in about a week), here is a high-level set of results for all-cause mortality in the U.S. in 2021.

Just to the bottom of the post for the spreadsheet and methodology,...

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Updating Sean Bean's Mortality Rate  

by meep

I figure Sean Bean’s mortality rate could use a refresh.

Yes, I said I would do an update of the 2021 all-cause mortality, but it got me depressed (it’s worse than 2020, in case you were wondering), so I decided – hey, it’s April Fool’s Day, let’s do a silly mortality...

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Dead is dead: Increased Alcohol-Related Deaths, U.S., 2020-2021  

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National Review picked up a recent JAMA Network letter:

More Americans 65 and Under Died from Alcohol-Related Causes Than Covid-19 in 2020, Study Finds

Alcohol-related deaths increased 25 percent from 2019 to 2020, with alcohol-related deaths among adults younger than 65 outnumbering deaths from Covid-19 in the same age group...

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