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Category Archives: Global health trends
Trends in life expectancy post-pandemic
In an earlier post, I examined excess mortality in the USA and its causes in the covid period in comparison with a group of the five largest European countries: Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom (“Europe 5”). Based … Continue reading
Posted in Global health trends
Tagged Australia, cause-eliminated life expectany, coronavirus mortality, COVID-19, drug overdose, Europe, excess deaths in USA, homicide, life expectancy trends, obesity, pandemic, suicide, Switzerland, underinsured, uninsured, universal health insurance, USA
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Widening life expectancy gap between Republican and Democrat states of the USA
In my previous post, I highlighted the 3-year drop in US life expectancy from 2019 to 2021. It contrasts with European and other high-income countries where the availability of vaccines and continued implementation of other public health measures resulted in … Continue reading
Huge drop in US life expectancy in 2020 and 2021
US life expectancy dropped nearly 3 years during the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic. The CDC has recently released US life expectancy estimates for 2021, finding a significant drop for the second year in a row. That decline … Continue reading
Abortion restrictions and maternal mortality
In my previous post, I estimated that 47% of pregnancies are unintended, and of these, 43% occur in countries where abortion is illegal or severely restricted. Globally, 60% of unintended pregnancies are aborted. In countries where abortion is widely available, … Continue reading
Projections of global deaths from 2016 to 2060
Sixteen years ago, I published a paper in PLoS Medicine with detailed projections of deaths by age, sex and cause for all regions of the world, from year 2002 to 2030. That paper has proved very popular, with over 14,100 … Continue reading
Australia now has one of the highest Covid new case rates in the world
In the last two weeks, Australia has gone from having one of the lowest rates of new Covid cases per million population in the world to one of the highest. Most of these new cases are in NSW and according … Continue reading
Posted in COVID-19, Global health trends
Tagged Australia, coronavirus, COVID-19, new case rates, NSW, pandemic, Switzerland
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Update on Swiss Covid-19 situation
Switzerland now has the third highest daily new confirmed cases per million (averaged over last 7 days) at 1,045 per million. This is exceeded only by Denmark (1,417) and Slovakia (1,130). The UK is not far behind Switzerland at 990. … Continue reading
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Tagged case fatality rates, COVID-19, deaths, delta, Denmark, Germany, new cases, omicron, pandemic, PfizerSwitzerland, Slovakia, vaccination
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Covid-19 booster shots and the Delta variant
Switzerland is now offering a Covid-19 booster shot to to the 65+ and at-risk who has had their two Covid-19 vaccinations at least six months ago. It may soon be extended to all adults. I had my third shot last … Continue reading
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Tagged Austria, booster, COVID-19, initiative, Israel, Moderna, mRNA, Netherlands, pandemic, Pfizer, referendum, Switzerland, vaccination
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A fourth Covid-19 wave hits Europe and Switzerland has a second referendum to end vaccine certificate requirements
Covid-19 cases rose by 7% and deaths by 10% over the last week in Europe, as it enters a fourth (or fifth) wave and currently accounts for about two-thirds of infections reported globally. Belgium and the Netherlands, which have fully … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-vax, COVID-19, initiative, Netherlands, pandemic, referendum, Switzerland, vaccination
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Afghanistan, where the war on drugs and the war on terror meet
In the last couple of weeks, watching the end of the American war in Afghanistan and the Taliban takeover, I realized that Afghanistan is at the intersection of the war on terror and the war on drugs. I have been … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, conflict deaths, Covid-19. opium, drug overdose deaths, fentanyl, heroin, opium production, USA
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