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“Explaining the discrepancy between excess deaths and reported COVID-19 deaths is a more challenging task. But several threads of evidence support the idea that the difference largely reflects uncounted COVID-19 deaths.”
Scientists explain the latest evidence of the true toll that #COVID19 has taken:
Belated #introduction
I'm a #demographer and #sociologist, focused on mortality in the US
Want to understand how I think about demographic modeling (and why I love it)? Read this interview:
https://sites.google.com/g.ucla.edu/asa-methodology/early-career-faculty-spotlight#h.8miqtq5hd6wd
Want to understand how I think about racism and mortality? Read this article or this interview:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2014750117
https://rampantmag.com/2020/11/deadlier-than-a-pandemic/
Want to know about my favorite recent research?
https://fediscience.org/@wrigleyfield/109524336021688112
(non-work-centered stuff in the next post)
AUGUST 2021: LAURA K. NELSON Dr. Laura K. Nelson (she/her) is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of British Columbia. She uses computational methods – principally text analysis, natural language processing, machine learning, and network analysis techniques – to study social
A recent Washington Post opinion piece claimed that #covid deaths in the US are being overcounted. The cited evidence? Conversations with service providers from a handful of New England hospitals.
In this piece for @TheConversationUS, we examine the logic of that claim, and summarize research suggesting that COVID-19 deaths in the US are being undercounted, not overcounted.
Despite claims of "overcounts," Covid-19 deaths have been undercounted in most U.S. counties. Population researchers can help explain the discrepancy.
A recent @[email protected] opinion piece speculated that COVID-19 deaths are over-counted.
Our new @[email protected] article explains why this piece is flawed.
COVID-19 deaths are not overcounted; most evidence indicates they are undercounted.
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🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/astokespop/status/1618273176827592705
Are #covid deaths now being over-counted?
Many different strands of research based on #ExcessMortality estimates -- by us and others -- suggests it's the opposite: we are still under-counting #Covid19 deaths in the United States.
Out today in @TheConversationUS:
From NPR: "[China's] high threshold for determining whether a person died from #covid19... excludes anyone infected with #COVID who died but who also had preexisting health conditions"
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/25/1145472905/china-stops-publishing-daily-covid-data
Opinion piece in the British Medical Journal (#BMJ): "The suggestion that children on the naughty list only deserve #coal is outdated and potentially harmful to the #environment and #childrenshealth."
Tamsin, Lilac, and Marigold Holland Brown argue that giving the black stuff to supposedly naughty children is damaging to their health and the environment Once linked to energy security and considered a welcome gift for keeping warm over the winter months,12 coal has since taken on a thought provoking association—encapsulated in the character who each Christmas rewards good children with gifts but leaves the miscreant ones with lumps of coal.1234 Coal gifted as punishment for supposedly naughty children is perpetuated on social media (see #coalforchristmas), and lumps of coal are widely available from major online retailers to encourage this practice. Our younger authors (LHB and MHB) point out that “[coal] is a fossil fuel …
The Conversation U.S.
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
CPIPR
Jon Levy
Emily Alpert Reyes