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Yes, I’m alive, I just haven’t been well lately.
So let’s cheer me up with some mortality!
About a month ago, we saw that accidental deaths were up, and this is a large category including things such as falls, drug overdoses, and car...
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Emma Woodhouse (who is handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to united some of the best blessings of existence, and has lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her. . . and is also somebody pseudonymous on...
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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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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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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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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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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.
The Society of Actuaries has been putting out a lot of...
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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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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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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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