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Some key demographics [1]: Haiti USA Life expectancy (M) 62 75 Life Expectancy (F) 67 80 Ob
by jmyeet 4y ago
Some key demographics [1]:
Haiti USA
Life expectancy (M) 62 75
Life Expectancy (F) 67 80
Obesity rate [2] is 36.7% (USA) vs 22.7% (Haiti).
So the most vulnerable population (ie older people) are way less prevalent and obesity is significantly lower. I don't know if that fully explains things or not.
I really hate these stories though because they always bring out confirmation biased Antivax Andys.
[1]: https://www.worlddata.info/country-comparison.php?country1=HTI&country2=USA https://www.worlddata.info/country-comparison.php?country1=H...
[2]: https://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/compare/united-states/haiti https://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/compare/united-states/haiti
- kgarten 4y agodon't understand the downvotes. Agree with you.
- slaw 4y agoSweden life expectancy is 83.18 [1] and Sweden had only small bump in deaths [2]. It looks like people died from obesity or lockdown effects like closing hospitals for non covid health problems. [1] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/SWE/sweden/life-expectancy https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/SWE/sweden/life-expect... [2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-deaths/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-...
- kgarten 4y agowe are talking about Haiti ... thanks for the Sweden statistic. I find both interesting, yet not consider them as downvotable. there are too many people on hackernews recently who just downvote based on their gut.