estelle, 1 year ago to politics "The Toll of #inequality Excess African American Deaths in the United States over the Twentieth Century" An article by Mary R. #Jackman and Kimberlee A. #Shauman https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/du-bois-review-social-science-research-on-race/article/abs/toll-of-inequality/9F0994F128271F21B04749C1E8D905C1 #USA #racism #whiteSupremacy #blackness #history #learning #learn #sociology #politics #USPol @ecosocio #demography #mortality
"The Toll of #inequality Excess African American Deaths in the United States over the Twentieth Century" An article by Mary R. #Jackman and Kimberlee A. #Shauman https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/du-bois-review-social-science-research-on-race/article/abs/toll-of-inequality/9F0994F128271F21B04749C1E8D905C1 #USA #racism #whiteSupremacy #blackness #history #learning #learn #sociology #politics #USPol @ecosocio #demography #mortality
wrigleyfield, 1 year ago to random Is Covid "like the flu"? We asked how many years (pre-2020) it would take for flu & pneumonia cumulative death rates to equal 3 years of Covid Answer: 17 years In one state, Hawaii: Covid deaths were like recent (unusually high) flu deaths Otherwise: nope #Covid #Covid19 #influenza #pneumonia #pandemic #DeathRates #mortality #PublicHealth #demography #hawaii https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.24.23289045v1
Is Covid "like the flu"?
We asked how many years (pre-2020) it would take for flu & pneumonia cumulative death rates to equal 3 years of Covid
Answer: 17 years
In one state, Hawaii: Covid deaths were like recent (unusually high) flu deaths
Otherwise: nope
#Covid #Covid19 #influenza #pneumonia #pandemic #DeathRates #mortality #PublicHealth #demography #hawaii
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.24.23289045v1
philipncohen, 1 year ago to Sociology Hello new #mastodonmigration folks. I post about #sociology and #demography, mostly related to #inequality, including Demographic Fact A Day, things about academia and #scicomm, #openscience and antifascist type politics. Also, the social science preprint server #SocArXiv. #introduction image/png
Hello new #mastodonmigration folks. I post about #sociology and #demography, mostly related to #inequality, including Demographic Fact A Day, things about academia and #scicomm, #openscience and antifascist type politics. Also, the social science preprint server #SocArXiv. #introduction
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