Death's in Indiana up 40 percent. What's killing all the Hoosiers?

justanotherguy505

All-Conference
Jul 16, 2003
13,225
2,217
0
I mean, COVID is manmade and is designed to be an informal "Death Panel". I wonder what percentage of those deaths are between 55-64, since, you know, an 18-year old and a 64-year old are in the exact same shape physically. This article deserves an immediate dismissal just for that alone.
 

gamecockcat

Heisman
Oct 29, 2004
10,524
13,501
0
Several life insurance companies have reported a huge (>50%) rise in death claims in Q3 2021 and not just older individuals. Not sure what that says about vaccines, boosters, avoiding treatment for other ailments due to COVID, etc. but it's certainly unexpected that mortality across all age groups jumped so precipitously in 2021 after all the gyrations we've gone through the past 2 years.
 
  • Like
Reactions: BigSexyCat

55wildcat

Heisman
Jan 4, 2006
33,968
99,361
113
There's a rumor that to many Hoosiers are dying from car accidents, AND supposedly a class action lawsuit is in the works against the big three auto makers. The complaint? When the automakers moved the headlight dimmer switch from the floor to the steering wheel, Hoosiers are getting their feet hung up in the steering wheel causing them to lose control of vehicle. Don't shoot the messenger
 
Mar 13, 2004
14,745
12,925
0
There's a lot of "if" in that article when real data is easily available. I downloaded CDC data here and compared deaths in people under 65 in Q3 of 2020 to Q3 of 2021. This is by week, not month, so I included every week ending during Q3. This means there could be a slight error in the data if one year has 1 or 2 more days included than the other (1 additional day would be about 1% error).

There was a 14.2% increase in total deaths in people under age 65 in 2021. 91.3% of that is accounted for by the increase in covid deaths (154% increase from 2020 to 2021 - Q3 of 2020 was a very low covid period). Non-covid-coded deaths increased by 1.3% in 2021 over 2020.

You can browse through data for all states and all ages in that link. I don't see anything (including looking specifically at Indiana) that shows some unusual spike in deaths.
 

KMKAT

All-Conference
Sep 17, 2003
94,717
2,942
0
How are we not sure that its due to being irrelevant in anything IU sports?

UConn should probably do a similar study.
 
May 31, 2018
15,257
30,635
98
The first place I would look is.....