An alarming graph

[ffutures]

Global Deaths Due to Various Causes and COVID-19

https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/2645529/?utm_source=embed

No idea how accurate it is.

Comments

[dragoness_e]

Like I said months ago, Spanish Flu 2.0

[ffutures]

Certainly looks that way.

[joseph_teller]

From world statistics I've seen its fairly accurate for what is internationally available.

Note that the virus infections and death rate are highly under-reported and a number of world leaders are cooking the books, downplaying deaths and infection rates. Numbers from USA, Russia, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, UK, India, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, North Korea, etc have all missing information in regards to deaths. Add them all up and that tally may be as much as a quarter of a million people that have died and their death not properly listed.

This is also happening in the USA. We have some states that are only counting deaths that happen in a care facility (hospital, clinic or nursing facility) and are not counting people that die at home from the disease.

A number of deaths have also been missed, according to some medical folks I know, as they have been categorized as heart attacks or other brain aneurysm as they didn't link the blood clot affects to the disease until May.

[ffutures]

I can believe it - there's way too much politics in how these things are reported, and if initially reported wrong it may be years before the statistics are corrected.

[jhall1]

I wasn't surprised by the COVID-19 deaths. What did surprise me was that, long-term, malaria is easily the biggest killer, as we don't hear much about that in comparison to malnutrition, say, the second biggest killer long-term. If in five years time we look back over the number of deaths from 2020 to 2025, I suspect that malaria deaths will easily outstrip those from COVID-19.

To find homicide in third place was also rather shocking. I wonder whether that figure includes deaths in wars?

[ffutures]

I was more or less aware of the malaria thing. I think that the thing about murder is that it probably has a much more accurate level of reporting than other causes of death, which may boost it up the overall list a bit.