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update to Utah legacy.com obituaries:
2023 as of 12/29/23: 836 -- 56% above avg.
to get a "fairer" comparison, I also compared the "suddenly" OR "unexpectedly" mentions to the TOTAL obituaries for each year and tabulated the percentage of Suddenly/Unexepectedly listings to the total, and then compared the percentages to get a "normalized" …
update to Utah legacy.com obituaries:
2023 as of 12/29/23: 836 -- 56% above avg.
to get a "fairer" comparison, I also compared the "suddenly" OR "unexpectedly" mentions to the TOTAL obituaries for each year and tabulated the percentage of Suddenly/Unexepectedly listings to the total, and then compared the percentages to get a "normalized" percentage differential of "suddenly" or "unexpectedly" deaths for the years 2020 - 2023 compared to the average of 2015 - 19, with these results:
2015: 3.7% of deaths with "suddenly" or "unexpectedly"
2016: 3.2% "
2017: 3.5% "
2018: 3.4% "
2019: 3.9% "
2020: 4.3% " = 23% above '15-'19 avg.
2021: 5.1% " = 45% above '15-'19 avg.
2022: 4.7% " = 33% above '15-'19 avg.
2023: 4.4% " = 23% above '15-'10 avg.
This normalizing to the total obituaries shows a reduced increase from the first method, but still shows significant increases in the "suddenly" or "unexpectedly" listings for the "covid" years, with 2021, the first year of the bioweapon injections, showing the largest increase.