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I dunno, 404 where the worst was 455 doesn't seem great either. I'd be curious what the "age-adjusted death rates" look like (whatever the unit of such a metric
by orblivion 3y ago
I dunno, 404 where the worst was 455 doesn't seem great either. I'd be curious what the "age-adjusted death rates" look like (whatever the unit of such a metric might be?)
- gnicholas 3y agoI don't have the age-adjusted death rates, but FL is 5th in the nation in terms of median age (42.2). This is over a decade older than the youngest state (UT: 31.1). [1] 1: https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/median-age-by-state https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/median-age-...
- kelnos 3y agoOh that's surprising, I expected the median age to be much higher for FL. It sounds like FL's population, while older than most, isn't really that old in absolute terms?
- lmm 3y agoYou have to add a whole lot of old people to move the median much. I suspect the mean would tell another story.
- slaw 3y agoWhat really matters is not median age, but how many people are over 65.
- gnicholas 3y agoWhy did this get downvoted? If you're just looking at death rate, it's absolutely true. Over 3/4 of all COVID deaths in the US were aged 65+. [1] Lots of other people got COVID, and some of them became seriously ill or died (mostly over 50). But the supermajority of Americans who died were over 65. 1: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-from-covid-by-age-us/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-...
- slaw 3y agoThere are many covid believers on HN. It is hard to argue with someone who makes decision based on faith not facts.
- terminatornet 3y agoheres some facts for you: life expectancy dropped worldwide starting in 2020. to what do you attribute that if not covid? https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy
- slaw 3y agoIt is the most probably because of covid, what else could it be?