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I've taken to calling them "Pandemic Deaths", ie deaths caused by the pandemic, regardless of specific source. Makes it a little harder to split hairs.

• the_doctah 5y ago
  Then that should include suicides from lockdown inflicted mental distress
  • jeffbee 5y ago
    You mean it should include a negative adjustment for the fact that suicides fell in 2020 in the U.S.? https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/VSRR016.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/VSRR016.pdf
    • the_doctah 5y ago
      >Rates for persons aged 10–34 were higher in 2020 than in 2019, whereas rates for persons aged 35 and over were lower. I highlighted the important part.
      • jeffbee 5y ago
        > only the 5% increase for those aged 25–34 (from 17.5 to 18.3) was significant. Hope that helps. It's super weird that people try to focus on this when the larger failure of policy is that car crash deaths were up more than 18%, resulting in far more absolute deaths. You are talking about a change of 320 deaths while the car crash increment was 3140 additional deaths.
  • xadhominemx 5y ago
    Australia had a severe nationwide lockdown and suffered negative excess mortality in 2020
  • flerchin 5y ago
    It does