A thought: could the skewed death rate of the 1918 influenza pandemic with a higher toll in the young be in part due to survivorship bias in the elderly of that time, given that far fewer people made it past 50?
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Thanks! Most explanations for late-life mortality crossovers are built on flimsy, 1930s-style racist eugenics thinking. K I’ll: from Vaupels old “hybrid vigour from race cross-breeding” barf, to the 2020 Vallin paper “it was a side benefit of slavery deaths”- All deeply wrong.
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