The cause of every death in Australia must be certified by a medical practitioner. If the cause of death is not clear, the death is reported to the state or territory coroner for investigation.
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There were deaths from COVID and deaths with COVID – but other deaths are also likely linked to the virus’s impact on our health and our medical care.
Views on death and the afterlife vary from person to person and culture to culture. This course gives US Air Force cadets a broad perspective on mortality and its effects on people and society.
Many beaches are short on lifeguards this summer. An expert explains how to keep your loved ones safe in the water.
Legendary broadcaster Red Barber took a chance on Scully when he asked him to be an announcer for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Three years later, Scully was the voice of the World Series.
We have also lost moments of shared empathy – a space for others to see people who are travelling the same path.
Estimates of casualties from the war in Ukraine have varied widely. Some of this is due to genuine difficulty counting the dead, but there are also strategic reasons to put out misleading death tolls.
The brain can count small numbers or compare large ones. But it struggles to understand the value of a single large number. This fact may be influencing how people react to numbers about the pandemic.
Moderna will ask the FDA to allow emergency use for its vaccine in children as young as 6 months, a step many parents have been anticipating.
Latest numbers show antimicrobial resistant infections contributed to 4.95 millions deaths globally in 2019.
Using a robust statistical model, researchers estimate that coronavirus vaccines had prevented 140,000 deaths by May 9, 2021.
Obituaries tend to play down any negative aspects of character. Over time, they reveal what we value in life.
Hundreds of thousands more people died between 2010-11 and 2017-18 than anticipated. Austerity could have something to do with it
City cemeteries are fast running out of space, so researchers surveyed Australians and found many were quite open to the alternatives to traditional burials.
In Australia, among young men, recessions might save hundreds of lives per year.
COVID-19 cases are skyrocketing across the US. Testing has ramped up over the past few months, but increasing hospitalizations, deaths and test-positivity rates show that the virus is out of control.
Health statisticians keep careful tabs on how many people die every week. Based on what’s happened in past years, they know what to expect – but 2020 death counts are surging beyond predictions.
It’s hard to make international comparisons of the COVID death rates in individual countries, but a new approach is giving scientists better data to work with.
Health statisticians keep careful tabs on how many people die every week. Based on what’s happened in past years, they know what to expect – but 2020 death counts are surging beyond predictions.
The COVID-19 death toll in the US is now over 130,000. What do 130,000 fatalities look like? A biostatistician provides some perspective.
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Professor of Statistics and Interim Dean, College of Science, Virginia Tech
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Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of South Australia
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Associate Professor, University of New England
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Adjunct professor in the School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Sydney
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Research Fellow at the Epworth Centre for Innovation in Mental Health, Monash University
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James Walker is a Friend of The Conversation.
Emeritus Professor of Communication, Saint Xavier University
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Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, The Open University
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Research Fellow, Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Economics, University of Sydney
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Reader in Health Geography, University of Liverpool
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Senior Lecturer in Microbiology, Aston University
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Associate Professor in Economics, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Population Geography, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Political Science and Department Chair, Boston University
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Research Fellow, Social And Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne
