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We already know that the UK has seen higher excess mortality in working ages than other European countries.
There is a substantial delay in reporting of deaths in some US states, so it's only now that we can see that the US has seen something similar.
There is a substantial delay in reporting of deaths in some US states, so it's only now that we can see that the US has seen something similar.
Here's the full set of excess death plots for 15-64 year olds for each country in the http://mortality.org data.
From a wider perspective across all ages, the US doesn't look *as* bad, although this is still an incomplete picture because of both the lag in reporting and also the ongoing nature of the pandemic there.
Also, the US is *massive* so a direct comparison of excess mortality *rates* misses the fact that the absolute number of deaths is much higher.
You can really see in these plots how the US has fared comparatively poorly in younger age groups while seeing lower excess death rates in older ages than the UK or Spain.
Code for all these plots is here:
https://github.com/VictimOfMaths/COVID-19/blob/master/All%20Cause%20Mortality/AllCauseDeathsxAge.R
And big props to @HMDatabase for most of the data.
https://github.com/VictimOfMaths/COVID-19/blob/master/All%20Cause%20Mortality/AllCauseDeathsxAge.R
And big props to @HMDatabase for most of the data.
