{"id":200381,"date":"2021-04-26T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/04\/26\/the-new-york-times-catches-up-with-me\/"},"modified":"2021-04-26T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T01:05:00","slug":"the-new-york-times-catches-up-with-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/04\/26\/the-new-york-times-catches-up-with-me\/","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times Catches Up With Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 360px;\">  <a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/ILGsr9p.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/ILGsr9p.png\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Worse than Spanish Influenza<\/i><\/div>\n<p>  I&#8217;ve been talking about how excess deaths is the best measure of Covid-19   mortality, (see   <a href=\"https:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2020\/09\/they-say-over-200000-i-think-that-it-is.html\">here<\/a>  and   <a href=\"https:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2020\/05\/finally-cdc-excess-death-data.html\">here<\/a>) and now   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/04\/23\/us\/covid-19-death-toll.html\">the <i>New York Times<\/i> has discovered the statistical measure<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>It only took them a year, though the graph surprised me.<\/p>\n<p>  It turns out that Covid is worse than the Spanish Influenza epidemic:&nbsp; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">A surge in deaths from the Covid-19 pandemic created the largest gap between the actual and expected death rate in 2020 \u2014 what epidemiologists call \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/#\">excess deaths<\/a>,\u201d or deaths above normal. <\/p>\n<p> Aside from fatalities directly attributed to Covid-19, some excess deaths last year were most likely undercounts of the virus or misdiagnoses, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/#\">indirectly related to the pandemic<\/a> otherwise. Preliminary federal data show that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/#\">overdose deaths<\/a> have also surged during the pandemic.  <\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026 <\/p>\n<p> In 2020, however, the United States saw the largest single-year surge in the death rate since federal statistics became available. The rate increased 16 percent from 2019, even more than the 12 percent jump during the 1918 flu pandemic.  <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These numbers are really f%$#ing scary. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worse than Spanish Influenza I&#8217;ve been talking about how excess deaths is the best measure of Covid-19 mortality, (see here and here) and now the New York Times has discovered the statistical measure. It only took them a year, though the graph surprised me. It turns out that Covid is worse than the Spanish Influenza &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1011,1118,1285,1150,992],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-meta","category-pandemic","category-public-health","category-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}