[HN Gopher] Pooled number of deaths by age group in EU
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       Pooled number of deaths by age group in EU
        
       Author : t0bia_s
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2024-02-01 19:29 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.euromomo.eu)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.euromomo.eu)
        
       | kozak wrote:
       | Why is there higher mortality in winter?
        
         | t0bia_s wrote:
         | Especially in group 0-14 (higher than during covid) and 15-45
         | (slightly less than during covid but still more than pre-
         | covid).
        
         | thebruce87m wrote:
         | Respiratory illnesses peak in winter. There was always a push
         | for flu vaccinations in the lead up to winter, and now covid in
         | the mix too. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-
         | and-diseas...
        
           | WanderPanda wrote:
           | Why is that in turn? I've heard people refer to low vitamin D
           | levels but I'm sceptic if that is the reason (would be so
           | easy to fix)
        
             | hprotagonist wrote:
             | because that's how the phase locking shook out.
        
             | paavope wrote:
             | One potential mechanism is people staying indoors more in
             | winter, making all kinds of illnesses spread more easily.
        
             | teamonkey wrote:
             | Cold affects the immune response.
             | 
             | https://time.com/6238816/why-viruses-spread-in-cold-
             | weather/
        
       | rightbyte wrote:
       | What happened week 40, 2023, in the age group 15-44 yo? Is it a
       | data entry error?
       | 
       | EDIT: Ok Israel is in the data. That is a sad revealation and the
       | headline is wrong.
        
         | smfjaw wrote:
         | that's such a sad statistic, people in the prime of their life,
         | mainly caused by being out enjoying life at the wrong time
        
         | Macha wrote:
         | Also probably worth mentioning that the graph doesn't start at
         | 0.
        
       | WanderPanda wrote:
       | Anyone confused about the horizontal axis' tick labels? Usually
       | the range befor e.g. "5" is 4-5. But here it would be 2003-2004
       | in case of "2005". I never consciously thought about this but is
       | this way of indexing the standard?
        
         | jeroenhd wrote:
         | They range from 1 to 51/52/53, so they're week numbers. The
         | description of the graph mentions the data is based on weekly
         | result, though it would probably be better if the hover popup
         | would make the date range covered a bit clearer.
        
       | runemadsen wrote:
       | My company Design Systems International
       | (https://designsystems.international/) designed this site during
       | COVID in 2020 when the interest in mortality data suddenly
       | exploded. Happy to see it on the front page!
        
       | martythemaniak wrote:
       | Interesting, didn't realize that the winter of 2023 was about as
       | bad or worse than the winter of 2022. It seems this is the first
       | normal winter since 2019.
        
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