JoeData

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by JoeData 5y ago
> "excess deaths (including COVID deaths) exceeded COVID deaths" Yes, that's what I meant. I didn't think it was ambiguous. Lots of people think that COVID deaths were exaggerated. There are countries (with not very
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by JoeData 5y ago
Short answer: In the U.S., 12 standard deviations. In the U.S., deaths were 16%-17% higher than expected. The death rate was 17.8% higher than in 2019. Excess deaths were higher in 1918, but every other year since 1900 is lower. Using 1946-
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by JoeData 5y ago
The UK government publishes other ways to measure COVID deaths. the "positive test result with 28 days of death" results in the lowest count: Deaths in England and Wales in 2020 80,830 Covid-19 as underlying cause of death
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by JoeData 5y ago
Here is some more data. Deaths from all causes has declined rapidly in the U.S. since January. The red dotted line is my best attempt to correct for reporting lag: https://i.imgur.com/z8M0k2h.png Excess deaths exceeded COVI
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by JoeData 6y ago
Warehouses usually have rigid, level floors.
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by JoeData 6y ago
The CDC haven't released any national statistics on suicide, etc. But there is a file that contains "All Cause" mortality and "Natural Cause" mortality, so I subtracted the two and got what should be the count for n
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by JoeData 6y ago
The death data that the CDC has received and processed by yesterday, December 4, have a total of 2,893,571 deaths for weeks 1 through 48 (ending November 28). This number is incomplete because of a lag in reporting. The CDC estimates that t
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by JoeData 6y ago
I made this table: https://imgur.com/PZqKWk2 It shows the point melolife made, that the percent excess (excess deaths as percent of expected) can be high, but the expected number is fairly low, so the total number of deaths
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by JoeData 6y ago
The CDC has an "expected death" curve which reflects the time trend (which thus includes population growth and aging) and seasonality of death. U.S. deaths this year are well above that curve: https://imgur.com/p4k