Visualization of Covid deaths vs. other causes

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14 points·klyrs··8 comments

As much as I like this illustration, where is heart disease, cancer and traffic deaths? I believe COVID is a serious enough threat to the world without having to cherry pick data to prove it.

It says so right at the bottom of the page.

*Except COVID, causes of death shown account for ~7% of global deaths annually

I'm not sure that this qualifies as "cherrypicking" so much as it's a comparison to causes of death in a similar order of magnitude.

1. No traffic deaths?

2. Influenza at 80k worldwide is hard to believe. Wasn't it like 50k last year for the US alone?

I think it was 80k for the US, something like 500k worldwide. Is this chart US alone?

Edit: I think this starts at january, which is well into flu season, so maybe the bulk of this flu seasons deaths were already in 2019? In which case you're comparing the tail end of the flu to the bulk of covid. Covid is deadly enough without having to stack the data with relatively u fair comparisons...

No. It's labeled global, and there's not huge numbers of malaria deaths in the US, so it's not just mislabeled.

I double checked and I think it's because the data begins in january

Seems pretty dumb to only compare it to causes of death that add up to 7% of deaths.

this is comparing MAX() of one statistic to MEAN() of all of the others. Very misleading.

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