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I did a few videos a few weeks ago, capturing U.S. mortality trends from 2020 into August 2021.
Here is the first video:
Here are two more, in case you don’t want to wait for the...by meep
You may have seen headlines such as this lately:
U.S. Covid-19 Death Toll Surpasses 1918 Flu Fatalities
The U.S. on Monday crossed the threshold of 675,000 reported Covid-19 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University, which tracks data from state health authorities. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates the influenza...
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Ultimately, I will have a list of causes-of-death posts, so let me start a list now. Later, I will go back and update all the posts with links to the entire series:
I plan on covering accidental causes (falls, overdoses, car crashes), homicides, suicide, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s. I...
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I have been complaining even before 2020 about how media generally talks about mortality trends, generally using life expectancy as their hook.
Here are a few posts where I do that:
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Yes, I haven’t posted in a bit. This may explain. I cannot promise any particular publication schedule, alas. I never know when the pain will hit.
As mentioned in this post, U.S. Life Expectancy Fell 2.4% in 2020, and Death Rates Increased 16.1%, I want to address what...
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In 2020, there were over 93K deaths due to drug overdoses — a 30% increase over 2019.
This is super-bad, and worse than what I have seen for increases in other causes of death. I knew it was going to be bad, but I didn’t realize it was going to...
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I am writing this in response to something incredibly stupid.
Dear lord, this is so incredibly stupid (and yes, I know
mattyglesias</a> is making fun of Tucker, but if he's not doing that... it's still stupid)<br><br>yes, I'm writing about a blog post about this.<br><br>Just some basic info...
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And both those are very large compared to recent trends, though small compared against the Spanish flu pandemic.
Via Benefits Pro (and using the Actuarial News link): Life expectancy in U.S. dropped by almost two years between 2018 and 2020
Life expectancy in the United States between 2018 and 2020 decreased...
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So I’ve got good news and bad news, and, alas, I’m going to start with some bad news (for me).
More here: Livejournal post on my diagnosis
The short written version is that...
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The Society of Actuaries recently published research based on preliminary mortality data from the CDC, where some causes of death are broken out by age through the third quarter of 2020 (and some only through the 2nd quarter of 2020).
The research is here: U.S. Population Mortality Observations: Preview...
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