Authored by Patrick Heuveline via TheConversation.com,
The big idea
People in the U.S. are dying at higher rates than in other similar high-income countries, and that difference is only growing. That’s the key finding of a new study that I published in the journal PLOS One.
In 2021, more than 892,000 of the 3,456,000 deaths the U.S. experienced, or about 1 in 4, were “excess deaths.” In 2019, that number was 483,000 deaths, or nearly 1 in 6. That represents an 84.9% increase in excess deaths in the U.S. between 2019 and 2021.
Excess deaths refer to the actual number of deaths that occur in a given year compared with expected deaths over that same time period based on prior years or, as in this study, in other countries.
In my study, I compared the number of U.S. deaths with those in the five largest countries in Western Europe: England and Wales, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Those five countries make for a good comparison because they are nearly, if not quite, as wealthy as the U.S. and their combined population is similar in size and diversity to the U.S. population.
I also chose those countries because they were used in an earlier study from another research team that documented a 34.5% increase in excess deaths in the U.S. between 2000 and 2017.
The acceleration of this already alarming long-term trend in excess deaths in the U.S. was exacerbated by the fact that the U.S. experienced higher death rates from COVID-19 compared with similar countries. However, COVID-19 alone does not account for the recent increase in the number of excess deaths in the U.S. relative to comparison countries.
Why it matters
Rising living standards and medical advances through the 20th century have made it possible for people in wealthy countries to live longer and with a better quality of life. Given that the U.S. is the largest economic power in the world, with cutting-edge medical technology, Americans should have an advantage over other countries in terms of life span and death rates.
But in the last 50 years, many countries around the world have outpaced the U.S. in how fast death rates are declining, as revealed by trends in life expectancy.
Life expectancy is an average age at death, and it represents how long an average person is expected to live if current death rates remain unchanged throughout that person’s lifetime. Life expectancy is based on a complex combination of death rates at different ages, but in short, when death rates decline, life expectancy increases.
Compared to about 20 other high-income countries, since around the mid-1970s the U.S. life expectancy has been slipping from about the middle, or median, to the lowest rungs of life expectancy. So the relative stagnation in life expectancy in the U.S. compared with other countries is directly related to the fact that death rates have also declined more slowly in the U.S.
The U.S. has higher death rates than its peer countries due to a variety of causes. Cardiovascular disease prevalence has been an important driver of life expectancy changes across the globe in recent decades. But while death rates from cardiovascular disease have continued to decline in other parts of the world, those rates have stagnated in the U.S..
A key reason for this trend is the rise in obesity, as research shows that obesity increases the risk of death from cardiovascular disease. High prevalence of obesity in the U.S. also likely contributed to the relatively high death rates from COVID-19.
Another cause is that the U.S. has disproportionately high death rates from intentional injuries in the form of homicides, in particular those caused by firearms. Moreover, it also has high death rates from unintentional injuries, in particular drug overdoses.
People are being exposed to fentanyl without knowing it, and because the synthetic opioid is so highly potent, people are dying in unprecedented numbers.
What other research is being done
While these specific causes of deaths should clearly be health policy priorities today, there might be more fundamental causes to the elevated U.S. death rates.
In the early 1990s, young people in the U.S. between the ages of 15 and 34 were already dying at higher rates than their peers in other countries from a combination of homicides, unintentional injuries – in large part from motor vehicle accidents – and deaths from HIV/AIDS.
Research is underway to understand the more fundamental societal causes that may explain the vulnerability of the U.S. population to successive epidemics, from HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 to gun violence and opioid overdoses.
These include racial and economic inequalities, which combined with a weaker social security net and lack of health care access for all may help explain larger health and death disparities compared to European countries.
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Safe and effective. Random killing with fake vaccines. Why are people not outraged, up in arms, pissed off, something, anything, other that the sheep like apathy we are seeing?
Most of the “covid” deaths were a fraud, computer modeling was used to scare people not actual deaths. Now we are seeing distortions and lies in order to try and ignore the real cause of “excess” deaths. mRNA shots.
“Why are people not outraged, up in arms, pissed off, something, anything,…”
Because either not enough people KNOW of anyone who has died of the jab OR not enough people BELIEVE they know anyone who has died from the jab.
Dude,
Crawl out from under that rock you have been hiding under.
And by the way, Glocks are gay.
Regards, Joe
Glocks are gay, I agree. I have an M&P. I just liked the nickname. Thought it sounded cool.
Or dead people can’t complain.
Fear not. More is coming. By the end EVERYBODY will be pissed off. Hell, we’re almost there now.
There are multiple causes for excess deaths in the FUSA. They seem easily avoidable.
You’re preaching to binary entities. It’s always one or the other with these people. “AND” isn’t in their core programming.
Planned obsolescence.
Ah, Jim Jordan. The new Trey Gowdy.
Sigh… While I appreciate Jim Jordon, all this does is further the BS that there is a virus to be very afraid of. PCR “test” is frigging BS.
People get sick cause of unhealthy life styles, and the extreme toxic environment (that we have no control over) that we all live in…
You can ignore reality but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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You might not have heard it in the news, but in recent months, Pfizer’s pharmacovigilance documents requested by the European Union’s drug regulator, the European Medicines Agency, have been released. They show that Pfizer knew about a sickening level of injury early on. An August 2022 document shows that the company already had observed the following scope of vaccine injury:
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The 393-page confidential Pfizer document, dated Aug. 19, 2022, shows that Pfizer observed over 10,000 categories of diagnosis, many of them very severe and very rare. For example:
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Look at the average American.
This is as shocking as longer days in Summer or rain falling from the sky.
Americans are overwhelmingly fat, sedentary, on some kind of drug and stressed out of their minds by the constant barrage of media assaults against anything positive or wholesome.
How could they not be suffering from excess mortality. Like their own culture, they are dying off.