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Re:Indiana life insurance CEO says deaths are up 40% among p... by freyr on Sunday January 02, 2022 @11:04PM (#29777214)
> It did however cause an immediate corresponding decline in excess deaths, regardless of assigning any cause.

Did it, though? We see deaths increase in August/September during the Delta wave, but we don’t see them decline when Covid cases fell drastically earlier in the summer: https://imgur.com/a/b4Pobrh

That suggests 25-44 year olds may be experiencing an elevated death rate that persists even when Covid cases were low.

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Re:Indiana life insurance CEO says deaths are up 40% among p... by hamburglar on Sunday January 02, 2022 @11:13PM (#29777261)
I’ll need to rerun my graphs. I haven’t done them since mid summer but at the time if you overlaid the Covid rise and fall on the excess deaths rise and fall it was uncanny how well they matched. The falling side of delta may have been different.
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