Re: Info on T Cell / COVID business
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2020 4:35 pm
ponyboy wrote:
Actually, I did find some data on the CDC site and created this pie chart. Note that the data did not include accidents or suicide. But here you go.
Thanks, I knew it was on there, because I have run it before... I just hadn't seen it in a while. Was curious if it dropped down from 3rd. Under some of the middle age groups I think it got up to second, but then it is way down the ranking on the lowest age group.
I worry that deaths and cases have started to flatten out and and we haven't hit the low points from early in the summer yet. If things start to tick back up, we are at a much higher starting point unfortunately.
To put things into context, we run about 45K suicides per year as a country annually. So, when people talk about a 30% increase in suicides, it is an extra 15K. 3/4 of the way through the year, so an extra 12K so far.
We have about 70K drug overdose deaths per year in the US. so if we are running 30% over, that is an extra 21K. 3/4 of the way through, so an extra 16K.
At this point we have 250K excess deaths (the number of people who die annually in the US is 2.8M, and it is a remarkably stable number). 28K to the causes above, and the rest are Covid.