What’s killing young Americans? We have the data

For most people, the on-field cardiac arrest of Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin during the Jan. 2 Monday Night Football game was a frighte [Bloomberg]( Follow Us [Get the newsletter]( [More Young Americans Are Dying, But Not From Vaccines]( — Justin Fox For most people, the on-field cardiac arrest of Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin during the Jan. 2 Monday Night Football game was a frightening potential tragedy followed by what is now looking like a [happy ending](. A vocal minority, though, seized on it as purported evidence of the terrible toll mRNA Covid-19 vaccines have exacted on otherwise healthy young Americans. Photographer: Ian Johnson/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The medical establishment and the mainstream media have generally [dismissed such concerns out of hand](. But whenever I hear them, I ask myself, “I wonder if there’s any evidence of that in the mortality data?” US mortality statistics are [available online]( to anyone with a computer. They used to be updated only annually, but during the pandemic, the CDC began releasing [provisional numbers]( from as recently as the previous month. It takes a little while to learn how to extract the numbers you want, but I’m continually amazed by how little use is made of these readily available statistics in public discussions and debates around Covid-19, the vaccines and other topics. What the mortality data show is that, first of all, something has been [killing American young people]( in sharply rising numbers lately. Read the [whole thing](. [The Coming El Niño Could Be a Glimpse of a Grim Future]( — Mark Gongloff [The Difference Is That Biden Gave the Documents Back]( — Noah Feldman [Car Lease Ending Soon? Might Be Time to Buy]( — Alexis Leondis [Jacinda Ardern Gives the World a Lesson in Humility]( — Andreea Papuc [Meme Stock Mullen Is Drowning Its Investors in Shares]( — Chris Bryant [That Giant Sucking Sound Is the Exit From US Stocks]( — John Authers [SEC Comes for Gemini Too Late]( — Matt Levine [Sparks Will Fly in the Electric-Car Trade War]( — Lionel Laurent [Why Goldman Sachs Is Far, Far Behind Morgan Stanley]( — Paul J. Davies More From Bloomberg Opinion Here’s what we’ve been listening to this week. - [Crash Course: Covid-19 Vs. the Bottom Line]( with Tim O’Brien (listen on [Apple]( and [Spotify]() - [The Fed’s Impact on EM and America’s Drinking Problem]( with John Authers and Vonnie Quinn (listen on [Apple]( and [Spotify]() - [Twitter Spaces: How the World's Population Giants Traded Places]( with Shuli Ren, Daniel Moss, Ruth Pollard and Karthikeyan Sundaram This is the Weekend Edition of Bloomberg Opinion Today, a roundup of the most popular stories Bloomberg Opinion published this week based on web readership. Like getting this newsletter? [Subscribe to Bloomberg.com]( for unlimited access to trusted, data-driven journalism and subscriber-only insights. Before it’s here, it’s on the Bloomberg Terminal. Find out more about how the Terminal delivers information and analysis that financial professionals can’t find anywhere else. [Learn more](. You received this message because you are subscribed to Bloomberg's Bloomberg Opinion Today newsletter. [Unsubscribe]( | [Bloomberg.com]( | [Contact Us]( [Ads Powered By Liveintent]( | [Ad Choices]( Bloomberg L.P. 731 Lexington, New York, NY, 10022