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When looking at trends in death, is important to focus on the older age ranges. There are so few deaths in the younger age ranges as to make trends almost meaningless. (Coupled with the discrepenany over deaths by/with, any perceived trends in younger age ranges are probably entirely meaningless except to say that healthy, young people don't die of this).

What stands out shockingly is how low the death numbers are in the older age ranges when the race is Unknown. Raises questions about the data collection once again. The Unknown category has the lowest death rate by far. Seems there might be a bias involved.

Also, am shocked by the numbers for Asian-Americans in the older age ranges. On average, adult Asian men in the US weigh about 40 lbs less than white men. White men weight just more than black and Hispanic men. Why did older Asians die at such high rates? (In fact, Asian adults died of corona at high rates across the board). Once again, I can only assume bias in reporting data unless there is something particular to Asian-American biology or lifestyles that would make death from corona so prevalent. Or it could be that many Asian-Americans were counted in places like NY where patients died at high rates early on (likely because the hospitals killed them with detrimental treatments).

Finally, the huge drop in all death rates from Year 1 (2020) to Year 2 (2021) raises further serious questions. Was this because of new treatments? Was it because of "vaccines?" Was it because reporting was changed? Was it because they stopped actively killing patients with detrimental treatments?

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possible reasons for high Asian-American deaths - vitamin D deficiency and underlying inflammation due to metabolic syndrome - Thin Outside Fat Inside (TOFI)

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Very interesting! Do you know how many of the people were "covid-vaccinated" in these statistics?

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You can ban that paulafox spammer did you know?

I was wondering today if an actuary would be prepared to do an insurance premium analysis on healthy, fit NI vs obese smoker VI potential client. Maybe a cross tab on obese, NI, VI, smoker.

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The elevated risk for visible minorities is likely down to a strong correlation with poverty due to historical/societal reasons and a greater likelihood of being a frontline/essential worker, having limited or no access to good quality healthcare, living in urban food deserts, etc.

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Darker skin converts UV light to less Vitamin D than lighter skin.

That's where I would start.

Then I'd check their obesity levels.

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There's the question of relative levels of testing and detection across age groups and ethnic/racial groups. Of course, if you never get tested, you can't be recorded as a case. Also, I don't know if the tribal reservations are obligated to report their testing data to the CDC.

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