{"id":2242,"date":"2021-01-16T17:01:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T22:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/?p=2242"},"modified":"2021-03-12T15:49:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T20:49:59","slug":"comparing-epidemics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/2021\/01\/16\/comparing-epidemics\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparing epidemics"},"content":{"rendered":"<span  class=\"x-dropcap\" >I<\/span>n all likelihood, the US will end up with more (direct) deaths from COVID-19 than the &#8220;opioid epidemic&#8221; since 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Using the CDC WONDER data for opioid deaths and the NYTimes data for COVID-19, I show the cumulative deaths (y-axis) from all opioids (blue) and from COVID (red) over time (x-axis).<\/p>\n<div id=\"\" class=\"x-alert x-alert-info x-alert-block\" style=\"\"> UPDATE: On March 2, 2021, the US has had more confirmed COVID-19 deaths than all opioid-related deaths 1999 to 2019. My back-of-the-envelope estimates suggests we will easily pass the 2020 opioid-related deaths by the end of April. <\/div>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/covid_vs_opioids-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2280 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/covid_vs_opioids-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2310\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/covid_vs_opioids-2.jpg 2310w, https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/covid_vs_opioids-2-450x257.jpg 450w, https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/covid_vs_opioids-2-1024x585.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/covid_vs_opioids-2-310x177.jpg 310w, https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/covid_vs_opioids-2-768x439.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/covid_vs_opioids-2-1536x878.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/covid_vs_opioids-2-2048x1170.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/covid_vs_opioids-2-100x57.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/covid_vs_opioids-2-1064x608.jpg 1064w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2310px) 100vw, 2310px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be updating this periodically. Last updated: 3\/5\/2021.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>n all likelihood, the US will end up with more (direct) deaths from COVID-19 than the &#8220;opioid epidemic&#8221; since 1999. Using the CDC WONDER data for opioid deaths and the NYTimes data for COVID-19, I show the cumulative deaths (y-axis) from all opioids (blue) and from COVID (red) over time (x-axis).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242"}],"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=2242"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2302,"href":"https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions\/2302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewkiangcom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}