I have been doing a little Iowa Covid statistics analyisis, and thought I would share. As we have discussed often, there is a LOT of data out there...but there is very little cross-over evaluation that has been provided to the public.
Here is an evaluation of Iowa's deaths to date, based exclusively on type of employment.
Percent of Iowa deaths among the non-working....
60% Retired
28% Unknown unemployment
3.6% Disabled/Unemployed
Total of above: 91.6% of all Iowa Covid deaths are people who are not working.
Iowa Death percentage by employment category.....
1.3% Manufacturing
0.5% Health care worker/staff
6.6% All "other" forms of employment
All "other" occupations listed below health care workers are nearly equivalvent to health care workers or fewer.....suggesting that below manufacturing the death rate is fairly constant across all types of non-manufactuing types of employment.
These stats are pretty clear....the chances of dying of Covid are about ten times more likey if you don't work, than if you do.
That should not be surprising, since the most likey reason for not working are either retirement or health. Retirement being age related, and age being health related......the vast majority of Covid deaths are assocated with health, or specificially pre-existing health conditions.
What I found somewhat surprising is that manufacturing had more than twice the death rate among the employed. Being in manufacturing..... I am deeply interested . My personal experience speculates that it has a lot to do with lifestye, and particularly smoking.
The death numbers among the employed categories are small, so they are rather hard to interpret. However, using the detailed data for the manufacturing and health care categories, I found some interesting information....
Within manufacturing deaths......79% had prexisting conditions.
Within heath-care worker deaths......100% had pre-existing conditions.
All other employment deaths....nearly 100% had pre-existing condtions.
The 79% pre-existing conditions for manufacturng workers does not suprise me at all, and explains why manufacturing has a higher Covid death rate...a higher percentage of manufacturing workers have pre-existing condtions. It falls in line with all other statistics, and my own personal observations about health and age of manufacturing workers in today's world.
The 100% pre-existing condtions for health-care workers is an amazing stat considering the Covid rich environment they work in. That stat is very suggestive when attempting to interpret the risk of death involving Covid.
That nearly all other categories are similar to health-care workers..... suggests a strong (nearly perfect) correlation that death by Covid is caused by the existence of pre-existing conditions, and not due to merely to the exposure to the Covid virus alone.
To be clear, this particuar data applies only to those employed. (It is "possible" that it may apply to unemployed too, but there is no way to separate an age factor from the data.)
Futhermore, just what a pre-existing condition is, is not explained. At least, not where I was looking at this specific data, nor did I try research elsewhere. It is notable that it used "pre-existing" condition rather than "comorbid" condition, leaving open the possiblity there is a difference.
Coming full circle back to the unemployed.....
Truly unemployed:
83% of all unemployed had a pre-existing condition
10% a pre-existing condition was not known.
Unemployed/Disabled
87% had a prexisting conditions
There were no deaths where pre-existing conditions were "unknown".
These stats are probably not surprising. There is a good chance that the reason for disablity itself is because of a pre-existing condtion. Also, if one is disabled for any reason...your health has likely been well documented, therefore there are no "unknown" pre-exising condition cases.
Unknown.....
3% had a pre-existing condition.
78% a pre-existing condition is not known.
The "unknown" categories....both unknown unemployment and unknown pre-existing conditions are intriging and concerning. Facts are facts, and unknown is "unknown". So we don't know.
But that we "don't know" is a statistic in it's own right that is trying to tell us something.
In today's world...and remember these are Iowa statistics..... is is hard to comprehend how neither unemployment nor pre-existing conditions of a person who died can be such a large number. It it is suggesting that when the person died, their history of employment nor health did not exist.
That tells me that these people were largely "off the grid", so to speak, meaning perhaps homeless, welfare or other types of people that were neither participating in employment (or unemployment) or healthcare....... to the point of having no records.
If so, this number is unusually large and bothersome for a couple of reasons They are there and their numbers are notable.
SUMMARY
The above statistics are very blunt. Make note that not a single statistic above expresses age. However, the inference of age is unavoidable.
They do express pre-existing conditons.
92% of all Iowa Covid deaths occur with people who are not employed.
Nearly (indeed, virtually) 100% of deaths among those employed, involved pre-existing conditions.
Manufaturing is a slight and strange exception to the employed category where 27% of Covid deaths were categorized with no comorbid conditions.
Make note though, that all Covid deaths among manufacturing employment makes up only 1.4% of all deaths, and catergorized with no comorbid conditions makes up only 0.3% of all Iowa Covid deaths.
My analysis is based solely on the data provided. Whether you trust the orignal data is your own discretion.
(In my opinion.)
All above date comes from the Iowa webssite linked below.......
Here is an evaluation of Iowa's deaths to date, based exclusively on type of employment.
Percent of Iowa deaths among the non-working....
60% Retired
28% Unknown unemployment
3.6% Disabled/Unemployed
Total of above: 91.6% of all Iowa Covid deaths are people who are not working.
Iowa Death percentage by employment category.....
1.3% Manufacturing
0.5% Health care worker/staff
6.6% All "other" forms of employment
All "other" occupations listed below health care workers are nearly equivalvent to health care workers or fewer.....suggesting that below manufacturing the death rate is fairly constant across all types of non-manufactuing types of employment.
These stats are pretty clear....the chances of dying of Covid are about ten times more likey if you don't work, than if you do.
That should not be surprising, since the most likey reason for not working are either retirement or health. Retirement being age related, and age being health related......the vast majority of Covid deaths are assocated with health, or specificially pre-existing health conditions.
What I found somewhat surprising is that manufacturing had more than twice the death rate among the employed. Being in manufacturing..... I am deeply interested . My personal experience speculates that it has a lot to do with lifestye, and particularly smoking.
The death numbers among the employed categories are small, so they are rather hard to interpret. However, using the detailed data for the manufacturing and health care categories, I found some interesting information....
Within manufacturing deaths......79% had prexisting conditions.
Within heath-care worker deaths......100% had pre-existing conditions.
All other employment deaths....nearly 100% had pre-existing condtions.
The 79% pre-existing conditions for manufacturng workers does not suprise me at all, and explains why manufacturing has a higher Covid death rate...a higher percentage of manufacturing workers have pre-existing condtions. It falls in line with all other statistics, and my own personal observations about health and age of manufacturing workers in today's world.
The 100% pre-existing condtions for health-care workers is an amazing stat considering the Covid rich environment they work in. That stat is very suggestive when attempting to interpret the risk of death involving Covid.
That nearly all other categories are similar to health-care workers..... suggests a strong (nearly perfect) correlation that death by Covid is caused by the existence of pre-existing conditions, and not due to merely to the exposure to the Covid virus alone.
To be clear, this particuar data applies only to those employed. (It is "possible" that it may apply to unemployed too, but there is no way to separate an age factor from the data.)
Futhermore, just what a pre-existing condition is, is not explained. At least, not where I was looking at this specific data, nor did I try research elsewhere. It is notable that it used "pre-existing" condition rather than "comorbid" condition, leaving open the possiblity there is a difference.
Coming full circle back to the unemployed.....
Truly unemployed:
83% of all unemployed had a pre-existing condition
10% a pre-existing condition was not known.
Unemployed/Disabled
87% had a prexisting conditions
There were no deaths where pre-existing conditions were "unknown".
These stats are probably not surprising. There is a good chance that the reason for disablity itself is because of a pre-existing condtion. Also, if one is disabled for any reason...your health has likely been well documented, therefore there are no "unknown" pre-exising condition cases.
Unknown.....
3% had a pre-existing condition.
78% a pre-existing condition is not known.
The "unknown" categories....both unknown unemployment and unknown pre-existing conditions are intriging and concerning. Facts are facts, and unknown is "unknown". So we don't know.
But that we "don't know" is a statistic in it's own right that is trying to tell us something.
In today's world...and remember these are Iowa statistics..... is is hard to comprehend how neither unemployment nor pre-existing conditions of a person who died can be such a large number. It it is suggesting that when the person died, their history of employment nor health did not exist.
That tells me that these people were largely "off the grid", so to speak, meaning perhaps homeless, welfare or other types of people that were neither participating in employment (or unemployment) or healthcare....... to the point of having no records.
If so, this number is unusually large and bothersome for a couple of reasons They are there and their numbers are notable.
SUMMARY
The above statistics are very blunt. Make note that not a single statistic above expresses age. However, the inference of age is unavoidable.
They do express pre-existing conditons.
92% of all Iowa Covid deaths occur with people who are not employed.
Nearly (indeed, virtually) 100% of deaths among those employed, involved pre-existing conditions.
Manufaturing is a slight and strange exception to the employed category where 27% of Covid deaths were categorized with no comorbid conditions.
Make note though, that all Covid deaths among manufacturing employment makes up only 1.4% of all deaths, and catergorized with no comorbid conditions makes up only 0.3% of all Iowa Covid deaths.
My analysis is based solely on the data provided. Whether you trust the orignal data is your own discretion.
(In my opinion.)
All above date comes from the Iowa webssite linked below.......
Outcome Analysis Deaths
Outcome Analysis (Deaths) Dashboard Outcome Analysis Deaths
coronavirus.iowa.gov
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