Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Invisible Heart Disease, or What We Are Worried About

If you didn't see this chart from Our World in Data, now's your chance:


Click the image to enlarge... and if that copy isn't large enough, this version on Twitter is larger.

This is definitely one I want to be able to find again in the filing cabinet. I'm having trouble processing how little relation there is between the death stats in the first column, the big skew in what all of us are searching relative to that reality, and the even bigger skew in media coverage.

If it bleeds it leads, and if it blows up it leads even more.

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