death rate
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States in the middle of the pack have seen a death rate of around 1 in 800 dead.
With patchy data on their hands, the researchers think that the real death rate may very well be even higher.
Why South Africa stopped using the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine | Rahul Rao | February 8, 2021 | Popular-ScienceVariola minor had similar symptoms but was much less deadly, with death rates around 1 percent.
Smallpox used to kill millions of people every year. Here’s how humans beat it. | Kelsey Piper | February 5, 2021 | VoxThe data was analyzed and standardized using the statistical program R, which The Post used to identify the spread of the virus and as well as infection and death rates.
900,000 infected. Nearly 15,000 dead. How the coronavirus tore through D.C., Maryland and Virginia. | Rebecca Tan, Antonio Olivo, John D. Harden | February 5, 2021 | Washington PostIf I was an 8-year-old in 1842, I would have seen dozens of corpses by the time that I was an adult, because not only did the family take care of their own dead, but there was a higher death rate at the time.
In a survey of 28 states, the agency found the death rate increased from 1.0 to 2.1 per 100,000.
And increased coverage explained 88% of the variance in death rate— an extremely strong correlation.
So even though cardiovascular death rate has decreased in the last decade, our disease burden remains unacceptably high (PDF).
Doctors Should Start Advocating Dietary Options to Treat Heart Disease | Daniela Drake | July 11, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBy one estimate I've seen, hypertension control has cut the death rate from stroke in half, and from heart attacks by a third.
Study: Giving People Government Health Insurance May Not Make them Any Healthier | Megan McArdle | May 1, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTNew research shows the American maternal death rate is far higher than in other Western nations.
Earth's birth and death rate are stable, and there's enough for everyone.
The Status Civilization | Robert SheckleyNotice also the rise in the death rate when the young Cuban Republic took control.
A Civic Biology | George William HunterA declining birth rate may be redeemed by a declining death rate and the superior progeny of mature marriage.
The Women of Tomorrow | William HardBut for the English we probably would not have known the means of eradicating malaria; the death rate would have been great.
The United Seas | Robert W. RogersEven when public opinion is more civilized, natural cowardice will keep the death-rate down.
The Open Question | Elizabeth Robins
British Dictionary definitions for death rate
the ratio of deaths in a specified area, group, etc, to the population of that area, group, etc: Also called (esp US): mortality rate
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