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Life expectancy at birth 2000-2021: USA, Americas and World (hexbear.net)

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WHO Global Health Observatory > United States of America

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[–] Krem@hexbear.net 52 points 3 months ago (1 children)

soviet-hmm party-parrot-mask

[–] hellinkilla@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not to sound too much like a redditor but do you think that is true?

I downloaded the spreadsheet linked as the data source. See spoiler below formated for lemmy as follows:

filtered only for country CHN
Sorted by column VAL_DTHS_RATE100K_NUMERIC (death rates per 100k I think)
Added a column A with a line count
removed columns that had same value in every row DIM_COUNTRY_CODE (CHN), DIM_YEAR_CODE (2021), DIM_SEX_CODE (BTSX)
There were 134 rows but I had to cut some of the bottom ones due to character limits in comments

COVID 19 is the 74th cause of death (in 2021!) below Testicular cancer, Neonatal sepsis and infections, and above Gynecological diseases and Collective violence and legal intervention. There are only 87 causes that have any value, so COVID is one of the least common ways to die (in 2021!) according to this.

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count	DIM_GHECAUSE_TITLE	VAL_DTHS_RATE100K_NUMERIC
1	Stroke	177.77
2	Ischaemic heart disease	137.09
3	Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	89.35
4	Trachea, bronchus, lung cancers	54.55
5	Alzheimer disease and other dementias	35.73
6	Stomach cancer	29.89
7	Hypertensive heart disease	23.07
8	Oesophagus cancer	19.79
9	Colon and rectum cancers	18.66
10	Road injury	17.42
11	Lower respiratory infections	14.56
12	Kidney diseases	14.46
13	Diabetes mellitus	12.16
14	Liver cancer	11.79
15	Cirrhosis of the liver	10.7
16	Falls	10.1
17	Self-harm	8.94
18	Pancreas cancer	8.11
19	Breast cancer	6.52
20	Parkinson disease	6.28
21	Rheumatic heart disease	5.48
22	Brain and nervous system cancers	4.73
23	Mouth and oropharynx cancers	4.16
24	Leukaemia	4.04
25	Drowning	4.01
26	Lymphomas, multiple myeloma	3.96
27	Cervix uteri cancer	3.54
28	Bladder cancer	3.03
29	Peptic ulcer disease	2.72
30	HIV/AIDS	2.66
31	Gallbladder and biliary tract cancer	2.57
32	Tuberculosis	2.52
33	Prostate cancer	2.47
34	Cardiomyopathy, myocarditis, endocarditis	2.3
35	Congenital anomalies	1.95
36	Asthma	1.82
37	Ovary cancer	1.78
38	Exposure to mechanical forces	1.7
39	Kidney cancer	1.69
40	Melanoma and other skin cancers	1.52
41	Poisonings	1.47
42	Gallbladder and biliary diseases	1.47
43	Larynx cancer	1.32
44	Alcohol use disorders	1.29
45	Gastritis and duodenitis	1.26
46	Paralytic ileus and intestinal obstruction	1.12
47	Corpus uteri cancer	0.96
48	Protein-energy malnutrition	0.93
49	Rabies	0.89
50	Pancreatitis	0.83
51	Epilepsy	0.82
52	Preterm birth complications	0.82
53	Drug use disorders	0.79
54	Fire, heat and hot substances	0.73
55	Rheumatoid arthritis	0.71
56	Birth asphyxia and birth trauma	0.67
57	Interpersonal violence	0.67
58	Thyroid cancer	0.52
59	Diarrhoeal diseases	0.48
60	Inflammatory bowel disease	0.4
61	Meningitis	0.4
62	Echinococcosis	0.27
63	Encephalitis	0.22
64	Mesothelioma	0.21
65	Urolithiasis	0.2
66	Maternal conditions	0.17
67	Upper respiratory infections	0.16
68	Acute hepatitis B	0.16
69	Syphilis	0.12
70	Appendicitis	0.11
71	Whooping cough	0.08
72	Testicular cancer	0.08
73	Neonatal sepsis and infections	0.07
74	COVID-19	0.06
75	Gynecological diseases	0.05
76	Collective violence and legal intervention	0.05
77	Sudden infant death syndrome	0.04
78	Schistosomiasis	0.04
79	Cysticercosis	0.04
80	Measles	0.03
81	Natural disasters	0.03
82	Thalassaemias	0.03
83	Tetanus	0.02
84	Acute hepatitis C	0.01
85	Acute hepatitis E	0.01
86	Leishmaniasis	0.01
87	Multiple sclerosis	0.01
88	Iodine deficiency	0
89	Depressive disorders	0
90	Idiopathic intellectual disability	0
91	Acute hepatitis A	0
92	Lymphatic filariasis	0
93	Hookworm disease	0
94	Anxiety disorders	0
95	Autism and Asperger syndrome	0
96	Migraine	0
97	Macular degeneration	0
98	Other hearing loss	0
99	Chlamydia	0
100	Chagas disease	0
101	Food-bourne trematodes	0
102	Sickle cell disorders and trait	0

[–] penitentkulak@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yes, at this point they had cleared the largest outbreak in Wuhan that lead to ~4000 deaths in 2020 and were still protecting the population through lockdowns, mass testing of entire cities after single digit cases, and had high levels of public masking when not in lockdowns. COVID had not yet evolved into the more virulent Omicron strain, so these measures were even more effective than with the COVID strains we're seeing today. They literally saved millions of lives, as we can see from the results elsewhere in the world.