#mortality
I don’t care to CW this. I’m glad he’s dead. Dead. Yes, it’s probably awful to celebrate a death, but for my entire life I’ve wanted this one obituary. And now we have it. He will bother nobody, anymore. If I lose followers, so be it. It’s worth it, now that he’s dead. IYKYK.
Thank God He Is Dead.
☕ Time for a #coffeebreak?
Watch Jennifer Dowd, Deputy Director of the #Leverhulme Centre for #Demographic Science, University of #Oxford, speak about the #pandemic's impact on #mortality in the US and UK, and the future of #population #health in our latest #CPCCGWebinar recording ⤵
More startling #healthcare news on the same scale as #maternal #mortality in the #usa
Maternal Mortality in the U.S. Far Outstrips That of Other Industrialized Nations
https://tcf.org/content/commentary/worsening-u-s-maternal-health-crisis-three-graphs/
#mortality #death | My exasperated posting about the use of euphemisms: https://richmedfilmbooks.blogspot.com/2021/04/do-you-die-or-pass-on-update.html
#Mortality I don' think I'm imagining it, but broadcasters and the general public are becoming averse to use the word "died". Here are my thoughts: https://richmedfilmbooks.blogspot.com/2021/04/do-you-die-or-pass-on-update.html
To better prepare for #climate #change, we need a deeper understanding of how #ecosystems respond to and recover from mass #death events, and what the "new normal" may look like with more frequent #die-offs. Mass #mortality events are a tangible manifestation of climate change impacts, but we must look beyond the gore to gain useful insights.
https://newrepublic.com/article/172221/animals-dying-sea-lions
Mass #animal #die-offs are becoming more common as #climate #change intensifies. While news coverage often focuses on the scale of #death, #scientists understand little about the impacts of these events on ecosystems. Studies show #mass #mortality can disrupt decomposition processes and soil health, but some species show resilience after die-offs.
Qns for #Cardiologists. Do you use in-hospital mortality scores? If so, how and why? What sort of sensitivity & specificity do you require?
Thanks.
#Cardiology #Mortality #Risk #MedMastodon
Black and Hispanic people in Texas prisons died of COVID-19 at significantly higher rates than white people.
There we have it!
"Regulated timber harvesting does not reduce koala density in north‑east forests of New South Wales"
This is the first study to directly assess the effects of native forest harvesting on koala density."
#Noise helps "to nudge koalas away from advancing #machinery..."
https://www.forestry.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Law-et-al-2022-koalas-NSW-north-coast.pdf
#NativeForests #Logging #Harvest #Mortality #Koala #Science
"I'm deeply concerned at the sense of this country being disposable … This country is not disposable. And we need to be a little more aware, and more cognisant, of what our grandchildren are set to inherit. I don't think they're going to be terribly impressed with our passivity around environmental #destruction." Debra Dank
Global heating will drive billions of people out of the “climate niche” in which humanity has flourished for millennia. The costs and #inequities of #ClimateChange.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/22/global-heating-human-climate-niche
#BeetalooBasin #Fracking #GHG #FossilFuel #GlobalHeating #Climate #HumanClimateNiche #ExtremeHeatExposure #Mortality
Among older Māori, Pacific Peoples, and NZ Europeans with complex care needs and comorbidities cognitive impairment was most common, cancer most associated with mortality, but less so in the oldest people. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-023-03961-8 #Geriatrics #NZ #OlderPeople #Mortality #Disease #InterRAI
"The Toll of #inequality
Excess African American Deaths in the United States over the Twentieth Century"
An article by Mary R. #Jackman and Kimberlee A. #Shauman
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/du-bois-review-social-science-research-on-race/article/abs/toll-of-inequality/9F0994F128271F21B04749C1E8D905C1 #USA #racism #whiteSupremacy #blackness #history #learning #learn #sociology #politics #USPol @ecosocio #demography #mortality
![Abstract:
To take stock of the human toll resulting from racial inequality in the United States, we estimate the number of excess deaths that accumulated among African Americans over the twentieth century as a result of the enduring racial gap in mortality rates. We assemble a wide array of demographic and vital statistics data for all years since 1900 to calculate the number of Black deaths in each half-decade that occurred in excess of what would be projected if Blacks had experienced the same gender- and age-specific mortality rates as Whites. We estimate that there were almost 7.7 million excess deaths among African Americans from 1900 through 1999. Those deaths comprised over 40% of all African American deaths over the century.
Excess deaths were highest in the early decades (peaking in 1925–1934), but the only period of sustained decline was 1935–1949. Subsequent reductions in excess deaths were relatively modest and unstable, and in the last decade of the century the percentage of Blacks’ deaths that were excess returned to levels as high as in the first decade. That trajectory is less positive than the trajectory for the racial gap in life expectancy over the century.
[…] in the succeeding decades they progressively hit harder among older African Americans, many of them in the prime of life when their economic and social pursuits were vital to their families and communities. Excess deaths were also especially heavy among Black women for most of the century.
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I remember my dad joking that the batteries on his HP11C calculator would outlive him when he last changed them over 20 years ago.
Sadly, he was right: dad passed away in December last year. The batteries were still going fine until yesterday, when they conked out at last.
#hp #calculator #rpn #mortality #batteries #CremationNotAdvised
"The #EURO7 proposal [aims] to force the industry to deploy tech that will reduce everything from #nitrogen oxides to #ParticulateMatter, fine dust that gets trapped in human tissue and is associated with everything from #LungDisease to dementia and premature #mortality.
But the #auto industry, along with big #car countries, argue the standards are unnecessary given that the EU has already agreed to essentially end the sale of new combustion engine cars by 2035."
https://www.politico.eu/article/car-pollution-rules-emissions-health-congestion-euro-7-eu/
Next week on Thursday 25 May, Jennifer Dowd from the University of #Oxford will give our next #CPCCGWebinar, taking stock of #demographic insights across the #pandemic, with a focus on the impact of #Covid19 on #mortality in the #US and #UK and on the future of #population #health.
Register to join us online: http://www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/full_events_calendar/727/CPC_CG_Webinar__Jennifer_Dowd
Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act has an impact on infant mortality, but the results vary by state. Medicaid expansion may not be closing the Black-white infant mortality gap.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32913131
#NICHDImpact #ACA #Medicaid #HealthDisparities #RacialDisparities #Mortality #InfantMortality #Healthcare #HealthPolicy
In Minnesota, COVID-19 mortality among Black, Indigenous, and people of color was 459 deaths per 100,000 population in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods compared with 126 per 100,000 in the most advantaged. Total mortality increased in 2020 by 14 percent for non-Hispanic white people and 41 percent for BIPOC.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34524913
@wrigleyfield #NICHDImpact #HealthDisparities #COVID19 #Mortality #BIPOC
Retoot with addition of risk assessment tool for #alcohol and #mortality https://med-mastodon.com/@auscandoc/110351533825941152
Nearly 40,00 U.S. children under age 18 had lost at least 1 parent due to COVID-19 Feb. 2021, three-quarters of these children were adolescents. A natural herd immunity strategy that results in 1.5 million U.S. deaths could leave an estimated 116,900 U.S. children without a parent.
Delays and inconsistencies in implementing COVID-19 public health and social distancing measures, especially when compared with Vietnam, Zimbabwe, New Zealand, South Korea, Ethiopia, and Kazakhstan, help explain the United States’ extremely high COVID-19 cases and deaths.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33975277
#NICHDImpact #COVID19 #PublicHealth #Mortality #GlobalHealth #HealthPolicy
#Mortality in the past: every second #child died
https://bigthink.com/the-past/child-mortality/
It’s a pandemic of the disadvantaged not of the unvaccinated: At midlife, white people are less vaccinated but still at less risk of COVID19 mortality in Minnesota.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35291300
#NICHDImpact #HealthDisparities #COVID19 #Mortality #Vaccination #Pandemic
Among patients hospitalized with COVID-19, a higher long-term PM2.5 exposure level (fine particle air pollution) was associated with an increased risk of mortality and ICU admission.
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality and health disparities are underestimated when only deaths directly attributed to COVID-19 are counted. For an equitable public health response: include indirect effects on mortality, which impacted Black and Native American adults more than non-Hispanic white adults.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34936406
@uncpopcenter #NICHDImpact #COVID19 #HealthDisparities #Mortality #RacialDisparities
Remarkable reductions in COVID-19 mortality occurred among older Americans (80+) btw March 2020 and October 2021. Rising mortality among younger adults underscores the value of increasing the lagging vaccination rate in this population.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35579900
#NICHDImpact #COVID19 #Aging #Mortality #AgeDisparities #Vaccination
Another spiritual song. "Cherish the certainty of now"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYFDKk4K1tY
#mortality
I sometimes listen to this song on repeat. Embrace the transience of now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nFgJJVcBYU
#mortality #silentsunday
I will die. You will die. Everyone we know will die. Humanity will die out too. Eternity is not for us.
#mortality #silentsunday
The world was blanketed in fear and dread
As the virus caused countless lives to be bled
But now we have cause for hope and cheer
As the WHO declares the global emergency is over this year
New Yorker: In the Post-Roe Era, Letting Pregnant Patients Get Sicker—by Design https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/in-the-post-roe-era-letting-pregnant-patients-get-sicker-by-design #NewYorker #AbortionRights #News/Dispatch #Roev.Wade #Hospitals #Pregnancy #Mortality #Abortion #Pregnant #Doctors #Mothers #Texas
Covid responsible for 6% of all US deaths in 2022. Down from 12% in 2021. But that's still 6% higher than pre-pandemic days.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cdc-covid-caused-6-deaths-2022-down-12-2021
Ahmad FB, Cisewski JA, Xu J, Anderson RN. #COVID19 #Mortality #Update — #USA, 2022. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2023;72:493–496. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7218a4.
From 1906-1920, African Americans in cities experienced death rates from infectious disease greater than what urban whites experienced during the 1918 flu pandemic.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31197611
@wrigleyfield #NICHDImpact #Mortality #InfectiousDiseases #Urban #HealthDisparities
A quotation from Byron, George Gordon, Lord:
«««««
I live,
But live to die: and, living, see no thing
To make death hateful, save an innate clinging,
A loathsome and yet all invincible
Instinct of life, which I abhor, as I
Despise myself, yet cannot overcome —
And so I live. Would I had never lived!
»»»»»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/byron/60563/
#quote #quotes #quotation #existence #living #mortality #selfpreservation
https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/11/24/oliver-sacks-gratitude-book/
#philosophy
#OliverSacks
#mortality
#death
#dying
#LivingLifeWell
A review of Oliver Sacks’ last book “Gratitude”
The recent Michael J. Fox interviews made me realize that we should all be talking a lot more about our own mortality, and stop pretending it’s something that only happens to other people.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/04/30/michael-j-fox-parkinsons-disease-battle/
COVID-19 death rates were twice as high among Minnesota immigrants than among U.S. born residents – even when adjusted for age and gender. Latinos who died of COVID-19 tended to be younger, prime working-age men earlier in the pandemic. Deaths among the US-born were concentrated in long-term care facilities and in late 2020,
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34366520
@wrigleyfield #NICHDImpact #COVID19 #Mortality #HealthDisparities #Immigrants
Is Covid "like the flu"?
We asked how many years (pre-2020) it would take for flu & pneumonia cumulative death rates to equal 3 years of Covid
Answer: 17 years
In one state, Hawaii: Covid deaths were like recent (unusually high) flu deaths
Otherwise: nope
#Covid #Covid19 #influenza #pneumonia #pandemic #DeathRates #mortality #PublicHealth #demography #hawaii
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.24.23289045v1
Rising deaths from suicide, and drug and alcohol abuse for both Black and white Americans are overwhelmingly driven by increases in drug-related deaths since the late 1990s. Deaths related to alcohol abuse and suicide among both White and black Americans changed during the Great Recession, despite some racial differences across age groups.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33778856
@AndreaTilstra #NICHDImpact #Mortality #MentalHealth #SubstanceAbuse #DeathsOfDespair #Suicide
1. On this #WorldMalariaDay, we celebrate all steps taken to prevent, treat and eradicate #malaria.
In 2022, the WHO estimated 619K malaria-caused #deaths and 247M new cases all around the globe.
New #vaccines and #technologies are expected to help reduce cases and #mortality.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/REA_research/status/1650782955021713408
A fabulous story by @edyong209 about our research finding the #ciliate responsible for the 2022 Diadema antillarum die-off. #urchin #mortality, #ocean #microbiology #microscopy #protist #coral #reef #disease #USFCMS https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/04/sea-urchin-die-off-source-ciliate/673817/
#MVD is a disease with #high #mortality that causes #haemorrhagic #fever, and is among the diseases that require assessment under the International Health Regulations.
On 30 March 2023, #WHO assessed the public health #risk posed by the current outbreak in #Equatorial #Guinea as #very #high at the national level, high at sub-regional level, moderate at the regional level and #low at the global level.
Since the last Disease Outbreak News on this event was published on 22 March 2023 (with data as of 21 March 2023), six additional laboratory-confirmed cases of #Marburg #virus #disease (MVD) have been reported in Equatorial Guinea.
This brings the total to 15 laboratory-confirmed and 23 probable cases since the declaration of the outbreak on 13 February 2023.
Among the laboratory confirmed there are 11 deaths (#Case #Fatality #Ratio 78.6%; for one confirmed case the outcome is unknown), and **all probable cases are dead**.
The most affected district is Bata in Litoral province, with nine laboratory-confirmed MVD cases reported.
WHO is supporting the Ministry of Health by strengthening different response pillars, including but not limited to surveillance, including at points of entry; laboratory; case management; infection prevention and control; risk communication and community engagement.
https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2023-DON459
New: #Virginia's #maternal #mortality rate jumped 130% during the #COVID19 pandemic, according to an analysis by the Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism at WHRO.
https://vcij.org/stories/for-expectant-and-new-mothers-in-virginia-troubling-covid-19-trend
Great summary of issues with health equity in the U.S. and implications for public policy:
America’s Decline in Life Expectancy Speaks Volumes About Our Problems
https://www.governing.com/now/americas-decline-in-life-expectancy-speaks-volumes-about-our-problems
#PopulationTrends #Mortality #LifeExpectancy #Health #HealthEquity #SDoH
"That a single #Black #physician in a county can have an impact on an entire population’s #mortality, it’s stunningly overwhelming,” said Monica Peek, a primary care physician and health equity researcher at UChicago Medicine". https://www.statnews.com/2023/04/14/black-doctors-primary-care-life-expectancy-mortality/
Many of our @bib_bund scientists participated in #PAA2023 last week and shared their research work. Inspiring four days full of population research topics:
#Employment #Fertility #Mortality #Health #Longevity #Childcare #LifeExpectancy
if i die in my sleep tonight, this shall be my deathbed tune.
#atheism #music #mortality #muse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQcjpJHr5BI
('thoughts of a dying atheist' - muse, 2003)
#MaxTegmark and #LexFridman - On #Life Beyond #Death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYMS3wUgufM&ab_channel=LexClips
#Science #Philosophy #Biology #OriginsOfLife #Singularity #Intelligence #Consciousness #Life3 #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Humanity #HumanSpecies #Evolution #Death #Mortality #Immortality
Study notes high rate of COVID-infected healthcare workers still caring for patients. With the end of mandatory masking in California hospitals, this could significantly exacerbate nosocomial (hospital-acquired) infections and increase covid-related mortality, which is currently around 12,000 per month in the U.S.
#CovidIsNotOver #covid #mortality #MaskUp #vaccine #pandemic #ableism #ageism
Choose your killer:
400,000 Americans died from covid under Trump.
700,000 under Biden, and more on the way, especially now that he's declared the pandemic over and ended fed mitigation.
And in September, he'll extend the 9/11 federal emergency for the 23rd straight year.
Endless wars, endless surveillance, and 12,000 covid deaths per month
"But wasn’t it always thus? No. Geographic health disparities have surged in recent decades. According to the U.S. mortality database, as recently as 1990, Ohio had slightly higher life expectancy than New York. Since then, New York’s life expectancy has risen rapidly, nearly converging with that of other rich countries, while Ohio’s has hardly risen at all and is now four years less than New York’s."
~ Paul Krugman
"What explains the American way of death? A large part of the answer seems to be political.
One important clue is that the problem of premature death isn’t evenly distributed across the country. Life expectancy is hugely unequal across U.S. regions, with major coastal cities not looking much worse than Europe but the South and the eastern heartland doing far worse."
~ Paul Krugman
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/03/opinion/red-state-life-expectancy-death.html
Unbelievably powerful graph that shocks you even if you already knew.
I remember when the NAS mortality report came out -- I was in grad school and assumed it was a huge deal, so it's fascinating to read how little actually came of it.
No surprise but useful summary in The Lancet: COVID-19 magnified social, economic & racial inequities in USA. States mitigating structural inequalities, deploying & promoting science-based interventions (vaccination & targeted vaccine mandates) minimised death rates.
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)00461-0
@epiverse @sociology @politicalscience @geography @economics #health #covid #COVID19 #policy #inequality #mortality
Negative excess #mortality sign #NZ got it right with #Covid-19 response - #SirAshleyBloomfield https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/486666/negative-excess-mortality-sign-nz-got-it-right-with-covid-19-response-sir-ashley-bloomfield
Maternal deaths in the US rose 40% in 2021 (the latest year for which data is available), and the highest rate in over 55 years.
Women who give birth today are 4x more likely to die in the process than were their own mothers.
The rate was going up, even before the Covid pandemic started, but Covid worsened the problem.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/maternal-mortality/2021/maternal-mortality-rates-2021.htm
#MaternalDeath #pregnancy #healthcare #mortality #covid #cdc
@Sheril The OECD health report also shows that the United States spends the most money on health care and yet fares poorly in important health outcomes, including life expectancy and avoidable mortality. My short article on this topic here:
https://wp.me/p4LWPX-tp
Excess #cardiovascular #mortality across multiple #COVID19 waves in the United States from March 2020 to March 2022
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44161-023-00220-2
@erictopol quote:
"The persistent excess of cardiovascular deaths in the United States through the 1st 2 years of the pandemic, consistent throughout 5 Covid waves, even well after surges in cases waned"
The U.S. #methamphetamine #mortality rate increased fiftyfold between 1999 and 2021, with most of the added #deaths also involving #heroin or #fentanyl
#Medical #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/02/med02202301.html
No worse than the flu?
Think again.
New study finds that Omicron hospital illness is 54% deadlier than flu.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2801464
There are nearly 2 million unfilled jobs in the United States.
And nearly 1.3 million Americans died because of how we handled the pandemic.
No correlation I'm sure!
source on jobs: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/02/03/worker-shortage-restaurants-hotels-economy/
source on pandemic deaths: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
#Covid #mortality #jobs #pandemic
The US National Center for Health Statistics publishes weekly mortality surveillance data for pneumonia, influenza, and covid. As of two days ago:
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm#NCHSMortality
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#covid #cdc #mortality
[Articles] Long-term #effectiveness of #COVID19 #vaccines against #infections, #hospitalisations, and #mortality in adults: findings from a rapid living systematic evidence synthesis and meta-analysis up to December, 2022 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(23)00015-2/fulltext?rss=yes
Who lived & who died in WWI? Tim Hatton & coauthors show the risk of death or injury was a startling 64% (29% for death alone) for ordinary English soldiers enlisting in 1914. Higher SES was not associated with greater risk among ordinary soldiers, despite high mortality for officers. Boys from white-collar headed hholds were less likely to become casualties. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2022.101216
#history #economics #WWI #mortality #soldiers #war @healthecon @econhist @economics @demography @militaryhistory
#mortality : subjection to death or to the necessity of dying
- French: mortalité
- German: die Sterblichkeit
- Italian: mortalità
- Portuguese: moralidade
- Spanish: mortalidad
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Fill in missing translations @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/translations
2/2 Related: A comprehensive collection of other video/TV ads that use the split-screen device https://bit.ly/splitscreentwo
#advertising #marketing #health #mortality #creative #creativity
It's a real head scratcher.
#COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #pandemic #mortality
Why did approximately 1.32 million more Americans die in 2020-2022 than expected?
Water treatment reduces the odds of child mortality about 30%, according to a careful new meta-analysis by Michael Kremer, Stephen P. Luby, Ricardo Maertens, Brandon Tan, and Witold Więcek. Results are used to assess cost-effectiveness of investing in water treatment options.
https://www.nber.org/papers/w30835
@devecon @healthecon @epiverse @econhist @demography #health #development #water #mortality #childhood #children
Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu.
New paper from Sergio Correia, Stephan Luck & Emil Verner finds non-pharmaceutical interventions in American cities reduced peak mortality 50% & cumulative excess mortality 24-34% without further depressing economic activity.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050722000407
#epidemic #influenza #1918 #health #mortality #PublicHealth #economics #history #cities @epiverse @healthecon @econhist
📣 Methodology webinar opportunity from University of Washington Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology: "Predicting Individual-Level Mortality with Traditional and Machine Learning Methods " with Nicholas Irons.
When: Friday January 6, 2023
Where: 101 Hans Rosling Center at UW & via Zoom
This webinar is open to the public and offered free of cost.
To register: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0DRVjIDOSLG7xl9nT3sE-Q
#Statistics #MachineLearning #ResearchMethods #Demography #Mortality #Ecology @sociology
First Mastodon🧵(making use of the 500 character limit)
With #SARSCoV2 becoming #endemic, the question remains how much #mortality we will have to expect in the coming years.
While naturally acquired and vaccine-elicited immunity has greatly reduced the risk of severe disease and death, many European countries still experience substantial #excessmortality. This is not unexpected given the observed short- and long-term mortality following #SARSCoV2 infection. (1/4) #xp
Serious question: why are folks concerned with the number of #Books a year that they read? This goes especially for the #Autistic population, since a lot of us lean #Hyperlexic and will read a lot without encouragement.
Quality over quantity, any day of the week.
And in particular, how many #Fiction books does one really need to read for a better understanding of life, God, the world, anything of importance. Or handwringing #TraumaPorn #Nonfiction, for that matter.
I'm not sure that number of books a year is a meaningful metric at all, and time is fleeting.
Today in Labor History December 31, 2019: The World Health Organization was informed of cases of pneumonia with an unknown cause, detected in Wuhan, China. These turned out to be the first documented cases of COVID-19. Today, three years later, there are now over 1,118,000 official COVID19 deaths, just in the U.S., and nearly 7 million worldwide. However, by all accounts, this is a gross undercounting of the true death toll. The WHO recently reported that there were nearly 15 million excess deaths caused by COVID worldwide, just in 2020 and 2021. And China, which had kept its death toll low due to its 0-COVID policy, has now removed virtually all mitigation efforts, resulting in 20% of its entire population getting infected over the past few weeks. With a relatively poorly vaccinated cohort of seniors, low supplies of anti-viral drugs, and a mediocre vaccine for everyone else, the death toll could quickly become truly staggering.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/12/31/world/covid-excess-deaths/
#COVID19 #masks #mortality #china #vaccine #wuhan #workingclass #seniors
Things I find myself wanting to say to younger friends & then bite my tongue because I don't want to horrify them & I'm fairly certain they won't hear me:
If you're with family this holiday season, cherish them. Because the direct & indirect effects of the pandemic are lowering life expectancies & the times ahead together you might have once reasonably projected are no longer a given.
A brief #introduction: I am an epidemiologist at the University of California, San Francisco (#ucsf). My research focuses on disparities in #covid #mortality (and #excessmortality).
Some relevant hashtags: #epidemiology #epi #epitwitter #publichealth #biostatistics #statistics #datascience #r #rstats #teaching #disparities #healthdisparities #policy.
The demise of NASA's InSight lander on Mars reminds me of the the most heart-wrenching depiction of a (real) robot on another world. This #xkcd comic gets me every time. https://xkcd.com/695/ #Mars #InSight #mortality
@crosscutanne From NPR: "#China is now facing what is likely the world's largest #COVID surge of the pandemic... the first COVID wave may, in fact, infect around 60% of the population... That means about 10% of the planet's population may become infected over the course of the next 90 days... Several models have predicted a large death toll... with at least a half million deaths... "The #mortality rate in China isn't going to surpass America's mortality rate [0.3%] at this point""
New Instance
I'm a former psychotherapist, living with a unique cancer - now workshop facilitator with a special interest in how our cultural relationship to #mortality impacts & intersects with larger collective problems such as the climate crises, climate justice, all the -isms & -phobias
Also study dreams & the devalued function of our "non-rational" aspects & how they might be essential to comprehend the layers of interconnection that bind us to each other & the planet
I occasionally host one time Evening Discussions that are open to anyone who wants to attend and available by recording.
Current archives include discussions on community group building, mortality, moral injury and the most recent is on the challenges, losses and threats and opportunities of this social media disruption
#MoralInjury #Uncertainty #Mortality #Groups #twittermigration
I lead a 16 session workshop on Living Intentionally with Mortality because I believe our collective death denial and death anxiety stems from supremacist thinking and exacerbates our suffering profoundly.
(Currently full, accepting wait list for next session)
🤩 Australian scientists say they have solid #evidence that short #bursts of #activity during daily tasks can significantly help to #reduce the #risk of early death, especially from #cardio-vascular disease. They studied 25K self-confessed non-exercisers. They found that those who briefly #intensified everyday activities -- such as playing with children, housework, or powerwalking -- just for a minute 3-4X /day had up to a 40% reduction in #mortality from all causes.
https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2022/12/09/one-minute-bursts-of-activity-during-daily-tasks-could-prolong-y.html
The #gut #microbiota and #depressive symptoms across ethnic groups.. the results show that the gut microbiota are linked to depressive symptom levels and that this association generalizes across ethnic groups. Moreover, the results suggest that ethnic differences in the #gut #microbiota may partly explain parallel disparities in #depression #disability, #mortality #economic #disparity #OpenAccess https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-34504-1
Since there are so many new folks, it's time for a re- #introduction
My background is in regional planning & demography.
(And, briefly, econ.)
I geek out about #data (especially #census data) and evidence-based policymaking (especially for social equity, public health, and environmental justice).
I over-use parentheses.
I'd rather be outside.
#Demography #Sociology #PublicHealth #ACSdata #Fertility #Mortality #Poverty #Inequality #Transit #Reading @sociology @demography @publichealth
I occasionally host one time Evening Discussions that are open to anyone who wants to attend and available by recording.
Current archives include discussions on community group building, mortality, moral injury and the most recent is on living with uncertainty
I lead a 16 session workshop on Living Intentionally with Mortality because I believe our collective death denial and death anxiety stems from supremacist thinking and exacerbates our suffering profoundly.
A friend is arguing with a relative who says Covid is "just a bad flu," so I made him this
Even now, in the lowest sustained period of "low mortality" we've had (after the lowest-low blip of mid-summer 2021), it's like the peak week of a bad flu season... every single week