• hellinkilla [they/them, they/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      Not to sound too much like a redditor but do you think that is true?

      I downloaded the spreadsheet linked as the data source. See spoiler below formated for lemmy as follows:

      • filtered only for country CHN
      • Sorted by column VAL_DTHS_RATE100K_NUMERIC (death rates per 100k I think)
      • Added a column A with a line count
      • removed columns that had same value in every row DIM_COUNTRY_CODE (CHN), DIM_YEAR_CODE (2021), DIM_SEX_CODE (BTSX)
      • There were 134 rows but I had to cut some of the bottom ones due to character limits in comments

      COVID 19 is the 74th cause of death (in 2021!) below Testicular cancer, Neonatal sepsis and infections, and above Gynecological diseases and Collective violence and legal intervention. There are only 87 causes that have any value, so COVID is one of the least common ways to die (in 2021!) according to this.

      spoiler
      count DIM_GHECAUSE_TITLE VAL_DTHS_RATE100K_NUMERIC
      1 Stroke 177.77
      2 Ischaemic heart disease 137.09
      3 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 89.35
      4 Trachea, bronchus, lung cancers 54.55
      5 Alzheimer disease and other dementias 35.73
      6 Stomach cancer 29.89
      7 Hypertensive heart disease 23.07
      8 Oesophagus cancer 19.79
      9 Colon and rectum cancers 18.66
      10 Road injury 17.42
      11 Lower respiratory infections 14.56
      12 Kidney diseases 14.46
      13 Diabetes mellitus 12.16
      14 Liver cancer 11.79
      15 Cirrhosis of the liver 10.7
      16 Falls 10.1
      17 Self-harm 8.94
      18 Pancreas cancer 8.11
      19 Breast cancer 6.52
      20 Parkinson disease 6.28
      21 Rheumatic heart disease 5.48
      22 Brain and nervous system cancers 4.73
      23 Mouth and oropharynx cancers 4.16
      24 Leukaemia 4.04
      25 Drowning 4.01
      26 Lymphomas, multiple myeloma 3.96
      27 Cervix uteri cancer 3.54
      28 Bladder cancer 3.03
      29 Peptic ulcer disease 2.72
      30 HIV/AIDS 2.66
      31 Gallbladder and biliary tract cancer 2.57
      32 Tuberculosis 2.52
      33 Prostate cancer 2.47
      34 Cardiomyopathy, myocarditis, endocarditis 2.3
      35 Congenital anomalies 1.95
      36 Asthma 1.82
      37 Ovary cancer 1.78
      38 Exposure to mechanical forces 1.7
      39 Kidney cancer 1.69
      40 Melanoma and other skin cancers 1.52
      41 Poisonings 1.47
      42 Gallbladder and biliary diseases 1.47
      43 Larynx cancer 1.32
      44 Alcohol use disorders 1.29
      45 Gastritis and duodenitis 1.26
      46 Paralytic ileus and intestinal obstruction 1.12
      47 Corpus uteri cancer 0.96
      48 Protein-energy malnutrition 0.93
      49 Rabies 0.89
      50 Pancreatitis 0.83
      51 Epilepsy 0.82
      52 Preterm birth complications 0.82
      53 Drug use disorders 0.79
      54 Fire, heat and hot substances 0.73
      55 Rheumatoid arthritis 0.71
      56 Birth asphyxia and birth trauma 0.67
      57 Interpersonal violence 0.67
      58 Thyroid cancer 0.52
      59 Diarrhoeal diseases 0.48
      60 Inflammatory bowel disease 0.4
      61 Meningitis 0.4
      62 Echinococcosis 0.27
      63 Encephalitis 0.22
      64 Mesothelioma 0.21
      65 Urolithiasis 0.2
      66 Maternal conditions 0.17
      67 Upper respiratory infections 0.16
      68 Acute hepatitis B 0.16
      69 Syphilis 0.12
      70 Appendicitis 0.11
      71 Whooping cough 0.08
      72 Testicular cancer 0.08
      73 Neonatal sepsis and infections 0.07
      74 COVID-19 0.06
      75 Gynecological diseases 0.05
      76 Collective violence and legal intervention 0.05
      77 Sudden infant death syndrome 0.04
      78 Schistosomiasis 0.04
      79 Cysticercosis 0.04
      80 Measles 0.03
      81 Natural disasters 0.03
      82 Thalassaemias 0.03
      83 Tetanus 0.02
      84 Acute hepatitis C 0.01
      85 Acute hepatitis E 0.01
      86 Leishmaniasis 0.01
      87 Multiple sclerosis 0.01
      88 Iodine deficiency 0
      89 Depressive disorders 0
      90 Idiopathic intellectual disability 0
      91 Acute hepatitis A 0
      92 Lymphatic filariasis 0
      93 Hookworm disease 0
      94 Anxiety disorders 0
      95 Autism and Asperger syndrome 0
      96 Migraine 0
      97 Macular degeneration 0
      98 Other hearing loss 0
      99 Chlamydia 0
      100 Chagas disease 0
      101 Food-bourne trematodes 0
      102 Sickle cell disorders and trait 0
      • penitentkulak [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        16·
        2 months ago

        Yes, at this point they had cleared the largest outbreak in Wuhan that lead to ~4000 deaths in 2020 and were still protecting the population through lockdowns, mass testing of entire cities after single digit cases, and had high levels of public masking when not in lockdowns. COVID had not yet evolved into the more virulent Omicron strain, so these measures were even more effective than with the COVID strains we’re seeing today. They literally saved millions of lives, as we can see from the results elsewhere in the world.