Posted on 09/08/2021 8:11:54 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, deaths attributed to many other health conditions have spiked in the U.S.: Alzheimer's, heart disease, cancer and diabetes, for example, have killed far more Americans than would be expected in a pre-pandemic year.
This "excess mortality" data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) underpins a new dashboard created by Rice humanities computing researcher John Mulligan that sheds light on this troubling trend.
"COVID numbers are not the end of the story," Mulligan said.
In Texas, for example, when you tally the number of people who died of heart disease or hypertension between December 2019 and August 2021, you would expect to see about 53,000 total deaths, based on the average from previous years' CDC data. Instead, 60,264 Texans died of these afflictions during this time, about 7,500 more than would have been expected in a non-pandemic year.
Since last year, the Journal of the American Medical Association and other publications have warned that official counts are underestimating the number of deaths associated with the pandemic. Ongoing studies indicate the number of people who would not have died in any other year has been undercounted by 20% to 36%…
… Since the onset of the pandemic, the "inconvenient data" showing this growing gap in unexplained excess mortality "has been sort of this sleeper, that I think points towards the very long-term effects that we're going to be seeing here," Mulligan said.
Mulligan said there are more rigorous ways of estimating excess mortality using the CDC's data. But he developed this visualization to be easily accessible and because state-by-state and regional trends can be unpacked with the dashboard, which also shows data on deaths in 12 different categories (such as sepsis and renal failure)…
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
Site for bookmarking: https://www.covid-excess-mortality.net/
Did they take into consideration growing populations mean more deaths?
For example. Texas is having a influx of people from other states. Thus a likely explanation is a shift of deaths from other states totals to TX’s totals
Social and financial stress can have a big negative impact on the immune system. Also wonder how many were impacted because their regular visits/treatments were cutailed due to the lockdowns.
cool site
Heart Failure plus Hypertensive Diseases up by 608 in Missouri. Or should I say they “spiked”.
counts are underestimating the number of deaths associated with the pandemi
Very good point
Unfortunately it’s very clear that all the money from the government and big Pharma has turned the medical community evil
If you’re unfortunate enough to end up in the hospital they will not allow people to see you and will not give you the treatments you need
Not to mention the the new drugs being tested on the population.
It would seem you are prejudiced by your preconceived notions.
The Texas population growth rate was under 1.25% a year for the time period of Dec. 2019 through August 2021:
https://worldpopulationreview.com/states/texas-population
The “excess deaths” are 13.7% above the norm for heart disease or hypertension. This is after taking COVID out of the direct cause.
Thoughts?
The commissars at the National Weather Service are now banning the use of the word “tornado”. It will be replaced with the term “Climate change induced high energy swirling wind”. Their leader has spoken and will be obeyed.
My question is: Has the overall level of deaths spiked? Because assigning a particular cause - vs. no particular cause in an earlier year - can impact statistics...which are easily manipulated to get the lay public (which doesn’t know the finer points of statistics) to a certain point of view.
That can’t explain a 13.7% jump per capita over what would be expected.
The growth rate is effectively at 1.25%. A per capita death rate necessarily includes growth, does it not?
It’s all them unvaccinated folks taking up hospital beds so other sick people can’t use them! We should deny care to the un-vaxxed!
We’d have to see a number of different factors. First, the size of the population, then the % in each age bracket, also whether there were other external factors (e.g. lightning storms, excessive heat). We would want to see more than two years of data to check for outliers.
That said it is certainly possible that some people without CCP virus died because they did not see a doctor or get treatment because of lockdowns. etc.
Forgot your sarc tag!
I posted this last week on another thread, but it is pertinent here:
My son spent a couple of days in the hospital this week with COVID. Most of the nurses and nurse practitioners were his friends. ALL of them said they would quit the hospital rather than be forced to take the vaccine . . . and they were working in the section of the hospital cordoned off for COVID patients. They think later versions of the vaccines may have been altered to create health problems for younger people. Early versions of the vaccines were safer to give false confidence so that young people would take it. They have seen a trend where young folks are dying right and left, not from COVID, but for a variety of reasons . . . too many to be a coincidence. They told my son they know the vaccines cause sterility in young men. They are unsure of what is unfolding around them and they are all scared.
“Forgot your sarc tag!”
Maybe so, but if Australian... Maybe not.
Probably the 1.25 percent increase of libtards streaming into Texas increased the hypertension and heart disease of the resident Texans.
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