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I got something different from that paper. Quote from the abstract: "Applying European age-specific death rates in 2017 to the US population, we then show that
by _carbyau_ 5y ago
I got something different from that paper.
Quote from the abstract:
"Applying European age-specific death rates in 2017 to the US population, we then show that adverse mortality conditions in the United States resulted in 400,700 excess deaths that year."
To paraphrase: on average in 2017, US people died more than the equivalent people in some bit of Europe.
No great event happened.
- User23 5y agoIt’s still significant because it’s a huge anomaly to the annual mean difference between the two populations.
- unpolloloco 5y agoAbsolutely. But the paper is talking about a long-term mortality divergence between populations, not a peak in 2017 like you were claiming (and there's nothing about 2020 data in this paper).