{"id":21318,"date":"2024-01-26T23:21:52","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T23:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thinkadvisor.com\/2024\/01\/26\/early-u-s-mortality-stays-high\/"},"modified":"2024-01-26T23:21:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T23:21:52","slug":"early-u-s-mortality-stays-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2024\/01\/26\/early-u-s-mortality-stays-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Early U.S. Mortality Stays High"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/-\/866089916\/0\/thinkadvisor\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.thinkadvisor.com\/contrib\/content\/uploads\/sites\/415\/2024\/01\/2023-8-23_percent-sign_Adobe_640x640.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.thinkadvisor.com\/contrib\/content\/uploads\/sites\/415\/2024\/01\/2023-8-23_percent-sign_Adobe_640x640.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"first-para\">The first reasonably complete death data for December 2023 seems to show that total U.S. mortality, for people of all ages from all causes, was considerably higher than the pre-pandemic norm.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/gis.cdc.gov\/grasp\/fluview\/Mortality.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a> put state reports of 57,668 deaths in the table it uses to determine whether the percentage of deaths from flu, pneumonia and COVID-19 is at or above the pandemic threshold.<\/p>\n<p>The December 2023 death total was 13% higher than the total for December 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic came to light, and 17% higher than the total for December 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Another, separate stream of data, based on figures that states send to a team at the <a href=\"https:\/\/healthdata.gov\/Hospital\/COVID-19-Reported-Patient-Impact-and-Hospital-Capa\/g62h-syeh\/about_data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Department of Health and Human Services<\/a>, shows that hospitals reported 717 deaths of people with COVID-19 for the week ending Jan. 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first reasonably complete death data for December 2023 seems to show that total U.S. mortality, for people of all ages from all causes, was considerably higher than the pre-pandemic norm. The U.S. Centers&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[1],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/early-u-s-mortality-stays-high.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}