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   Håkan Geijer (hakan_geijer@kolektiva.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jun-2025 05:40:39 JST Håkan Geijer

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   @richpuchalsky I'm guessing like liver failure, renal failure, random bacterial infections in old folk.

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     Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝ (richpuchalsky@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jun-2025 05:40:40 JST Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝

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     These are "surprises" to me because I'm not an expert.

     1) Malaria, despite its prevalence and overall disease burden, was still killing fewer people than either TB or HIV.

     2) Homicides. As of 2019, and including war deaths, there was a global 1% chance of dying by homicide.

     This is a good deal higher than what I had imagined. I somehow didn't think that 1/100 of us still died by someone killing them directly as opposed to indirectly.

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     Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝ (richpuchalsky@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jun-2025 05:40:40 JST Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝

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     Non-surprises (to me)

     1) By 2021, Covid had jumped up to global cause of death #3.

     2) Still more suicides than homicides.

     3) Other than Covid, non-single-disease symdromes like pneumonia and diarrheal diseases (caused by many different agents) still largest causes of death.

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     Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝ (richpuchalsky@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jun-2025 05:40:40 JST Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝

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     Other things that I don't know what to make of:

     1) About 6% are "other noncommicable diseases", and are not cancer, heart disease, respiratory, digestive, neurological, or diabetes. I really have no idea what's in this category.

     2) 5.5% are accidents which seems high. Don't know how many of these are elderly person falls.

     /fin

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     Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝ (richpuchalsky@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jun-2025 05:40:41 JST Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝

     What did people globally die from, pre-Covid? Followed a chain of links and got to this source which shows causes of death globally in 2019. (Latest available from this source?)

     https://ourworldindata.org/causes-of-death

     Brief thread about some surprises

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