The Mortality Working Group of the Actuaries Institute (Australia) has just released our analysis of mortality for the first 11 months of 2024. Total mortality was 1% higher than predicted, almost all because Covid-19 was higher than we predicted. #thread

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The Age published a factual story about anti-Israel protests. Then they deleted it www.lamestream.com.au/the-age-publ...

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Today I learned about the “Obesity paradox”, where the presence of obesity in nonegenarians (90-99 years of age) is a significant protective factor against in-hospital mortality for patients admitted to ICU Prof Laurence Weinberg #RuralSIG25 #Ansky

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'It's like I'm dying': Since getting COVID 7 months ago, Jody can't sleep. "Dr Gemma Paech, a sleep specialist with University of Newcastle, wrote in 2022 of a condition known as "coronasomnia or COVID insomnia" Source: archive.md/OMhjj

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Unreasonable to expect Labor to just stop approving new coal mines in their first two terms now.

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