Media contributions
1Media contributions
Title Higher mortality from other causes is offset by lower mortality from respiratory diseases Media name/outlet Actuaries Digital Country/Territory Australia Date 2/12/21 Description The COVID-19 Mortality Working Group continues to compare the predicted number of deaths based on their modelling against the observed number of deaths using the latest available data to 31 August 2021. In the year to date, deaths from all causes were close to predicted, despite the 79 COVID-19 deaths in August. Other respiratory deaths – mainly flu – remain significantly lower than in previous years. URL https://www.actuaries.digital/2021/12/02/higher-mortality-from-other-causes-is-offset-by-lower-mortality-from-respiratory-diseases/ Persons Angelo Andrew, Karen Cutter, Jennifer Lang, Han Li, Richard Lyon, Zhan Wang, Mengyi Xu