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A decline in deaths from one cause can signal another cause is killing people before the other cause gets a chance.
by xupybd 3y ago
A decline in deaths from one cause can signal another cause is killing people before the other cause gets a chance.
- carlmr 3y agoFamous example: motorcyclists get less cancer.
- Paul-Craft 3y agoIt works the other way around, too. Currently, the top 5 causes of death in the US are, in descending order, heart disease, cancer, COVID, accident, and stroke. If you could wave a magic wand and make it so that nobody ever died of heart disease anymore, those people would still die eventually of something else. So, curing 100% of all heart disease would actually cause more people to die of cancer, COVID, accident, stroke, etc.
- flakeoil 3y agoCOVID is probably just a short term anomaly and not a major cause of death going forward. COVID was probably also a cause of death that decreased some of the other death causes.
- smt88 3y agoThe opioid crisis has killed relatively young people in huge numbers. Suicide has risen too.
- yieldcrv 3y agoYeah if someone under 50 dies randomly and the family isn't specifying then I automatically assume accidental fentanyl A lot of people dont want their idols to be associated “with drugs” but thats just childish at this point
- xupybd 3y agoWhile the absolute numbers are not a huge percentage of the population they are tragically high. https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates#:~:text=More%20than%20106%2C000%20persons%20in,drugs%20from%201999%20to%202021 https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/trends-statistics/overd....