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   Kathmandu (kathmandu@stranger.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 15:12:19 JST Kathmandu

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   Wow, that's a lot of respiratory distress being inflicted on the poor little 0-3s.

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     Jeff Gilchrist (jeffgilchrist@mstdn.science)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 15:12:21 JST Jeff Gilchrist

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     Just to make things a little simpler, the last graph shows the # per 100k population as a stacked percentage so you can easily see which age groups are impacted the most.

     The youngest 0-3 age group throughout the year accounts for more than 50% of all respiratory related ED visits per 100K population despite being only 3.75% of the population. 6/

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     Jeff Gilchrist (jeffgilchrist@mstdn.science)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 15:12:22 JST Jeff Gilchrist

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     Why? The 0-3 age group represents only 3.75% of the population in Ottawa but had the same # of visits as the 18-54 age group which represents 49.9% of the population so a much higher percentage of the 0-3 age group is being impacted by respiratory infections resulting in ED visits.

     Now you can see the real impact on age, where age 0-3 have the highest ED visit rate followed by age 4-11, and then age 80+ which get hidden when you only look at the raw provided numbers from OPH. 5/

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     Jeff Gilchrist (jeffgilchrist@mstdn.science)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 15:12:23 JST Jeff Gilchrist

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     But you aren't seeing the full picture, this is where population rate comes in. The next graph uses the same data but instead of raw numbers shows the rate per 100,000 population in each age group.

     You can see with population rate the age 0-3 group is far and above the highest level of all groups while the 18-54 age group which had similar raw numbers is actually the lowest rate. 4/

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     Jeff Gilchrist (jeffgilchrist@mstdn.science)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 15:12:24 JST Jeff Gilchrist

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     If I take the data and plot all the ages together, you can at least see all of the age groups at the same time but it is just the raw numbers.

     The graph shows that the # of visits for the age 0-3 group is similar to the 18-54 age group near the top of the graph, and the 80+ age group numbers are very low, similar to the age 12-17 group. 3/

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     Jeff Gilchrist (jeffgilchrist@mstdn.science)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 15:12:25 JST Jeff Gilchrist

     Ottawa Public Health makes only the raw data available for All causes and respiratory-related emergency department visits to Ottawa hospitals by age group and week ( https://open.ottawa.ca/datasets/ottawa::all-causes-and-respiratory-related-emergency-department-visits-to-ottawa-hospitals-by-age-group-and-week/about ). 2/