Covid deaths have gone down, which is good (and this seems to be true for all age groups, last I checked) but what is alarming is the mortality rate for many other causes shot up in 2020 and just haven't come down.

If you thought drivers got worse after the pandemic, you weren't just imagining things.

And I don't know if the US even has the capacity to measure any other negative health consequences aside from death and disability.

Increases in early adult mortality can signal population risks that may become more pronounced as these cohorts age. These results suggest the possibility of a worsening mortality crisis unless these trends are reversed. Policy solutions will require attention to the underlying causes of intensifying excess mortality among early adults (eg, opioid use, alcohol consumption, traffic safety, dietary risks). The 2 distinct phases of increasing mortality (before and after 2020) may also suggest the need to attend to ongoing consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic—which may be expressed in causes of death related to long-term consequences of infection, medical disruption, and social dislocation—and to deleterious health trends that predated it.

It would be interesting to see how this compares to the few countries which waited until the vaccines were available before they went YOLO.

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[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It would be interesting to see how this compares to the few countries which waited until the vaccines were available before they went YOLO.

I have a hunch Japan isn't doing too hot right now and they were pretty much zero Covid till their vax rollout, iirc.

Not front loading all their social murder gives us a better idea of how bad things really are imo. Because again, all this stuff in the US is happening after we let a million+ of our most vulnerable people die for the line. Those are deaths that were taken from future stats.

Not that I need to tell most people here who read my rantings over and over, but you know, for the tourists.💁lol

I imagine China is probably looking similar to Japan, unfortunately.

[–] TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can play with the data on this site, but yeah it looks like every place that waited longer before ending all pandemic measures experienced a huge bump in excess mortality which has since remained higher than pre-pandemic times.

Countries that front loaded all the death have been experiencing higher mortality up until this winter, and it's probably due to the lack of new covid variants showing up since summer.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

yea

Countries that front loaded all the death have been experiencing higher mortality up until this winter, and it's probably due to the lack of new covid variants showing up since summer.

Probably.

And again, just for the tourists, normal is still higher than normal. If you randomly kill off a million+ of the most medically vulnerable of your population, those are deaths that should have happened in the future. So you should be running negative excess mortality for YEARS.

[–] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

luv 2 die

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This tracks perfectly with some sort of physical brain damage resulting in reduced inhibition

Circulatory is way up too which tracks with the people I lost who were otherwise healthy before (heart attacks in their late 30s)

[–] TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

Not completely unexpected for a virus that attacks the vascular system on top of being neuro invasive.

Kinda wish more people knew about that aspect of the virus instead of dismissing it as "a cold"

[–] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

why was excess mortality slowly growing before covid?

[–] TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

I would guess fentanyl/opiates and driving with smartphones is the bulk. The quality of the data might have gotten better as well.

[–] coolusername@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The 5 causes of death that collectively accounted for almost three-quarters of the early adult excess mortality in 2023 were drug poisoning (31.8% of excess mortality), the residual natural-cause category (16.0%), transport-related deaths (14.1%), alcohol-related deaths (8.5%), and homicide (8.2%). Additionally, the combined contribution of cardiometabolic conditions, including circulatory and endocrine, metabolic, and nutritional, was substantial (9.2%).

all probably exacerbated by shitty economy