{"id":2130,"date":"2020-11-26T16:20:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T21:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/?p=2130"},"modified":"2020-12-27T15:59:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T20:59:29","slug":"comparing-daily-direct-covid-19-deaths-to-other-causes-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/2020\/11\/26\/comparing-daily-direct-covid-19-deaths-to-other-causes-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparing daily (direct) COVID-19 deaths to other causes of death"},"content":{"rendered":"<span  class=\"x-dropcap\" >I<\/span>t&#8217;s easy to get numb at this stage of the pandemic, but a friendly reminder that daily COVID-19 (direct) deaths have been consistently higher than 8 of the top 10 causes of death (in 2018) since April.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re on track for over 3,000 deaths per day by Christmas (!!) \u2014 things are not good.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/c19_vs_top10-2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2201 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/c19_vs_top10-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/c19_vs_top10-2-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/c19_vs_top10-2-450x150.jpg 450w, https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/c19_vs_top10-2-1024x341.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/c19_vs_top10-2-310x103.jpg 310w, https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/c19_vs_top10-2-768x256.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/c19_vs_top10-2-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/c19_vs_top10-2-2048x683.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/c19_vs_top10-2-100x33.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/c19_vs_top10-2-884x295.jpg 884w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/mkiang\/9230a92483b6b6ea1dfa9055ecedc69d\">Code here<\/a>. (This figure was last updated on 12\/27\/2020 \u2014 at least some of the decline in the last few days is simply due to holiday reporting delays.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>t&#8217;s easy to get numb at this stage of the pandemic, but a friendly reminder that daily COVID-19 (direct) deaths have been consistently higher than 8 of the top 10 causes of death (in 2018) since April. We&#8217;re on track for over 3,000 deaths per day by Christmas (!!) \u2014 things are not good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,116],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2130"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2202,"href":"https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions\/2202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}