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People who have been reading me for a long time know that I like to keep a record on the Actuarial Outpost, but that site’s nameservers seem to have gotten hijacked by a domain-squatting operation.
I know one workaround: go directly to their IP address of 204.232.242.165. I...
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The last post depressed me so much, I’d rather write about something happier: COVID mortality.
The “Only 6% of COVID deaths were really COVID deaths!” myth has been going around, based on the fact that the...
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As I mentioned in my prior post, for this week, as it looks like I have new readers, I want to give y’all a little taste of the themes on this blog.
Today’s is mortality.
By the way, the “twin” substack post for this is highly pared down. ...
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I have loads of COVID-related mortality to lay on y’all, and no, I’m not doing a video (yet). It is much faster for me to write an extremely long post than to get a video together.
So a post it is.
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Before I jump into this, I miss the days where I could figure out numbers about “suspicious” Dominican deaths.
Or suspicious deaths of Russian men.
Man, those were the days.
So let’s get to it…
…um, prepare to count the dead
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Ok, I have had a tough week (don’t worry, it has nothing to do with you guys), so let me re-run a silly post.
I am not updating this one with additional data [except for Sean Bean’s current age].
This post originally ran in March 2017.
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A couple video explainers and a spreadsheet so you can visualize mortality spikes driven by COVID-19.
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I look at patterns in total deaths to see that yes, COVID-19 is making a big impact in particular countries and cities.
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I pull out 6 major figures from the Final Data on U.S. Deaths for 2017, which treats with major mortality trends in the United States.
Also, the St. Matthew Passion.
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Meep discuses total death numbers for U.S., for a “baseline” year. People can then use these numbers to make comparisons in reporting on COVID-19.
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