American Death Rate Rises for First Time in a Decade 

A data point that conflicts clearly conflicts  our Aging of the Population investing theme – not a bad thing per se it just means double checking other data and seeing if this is an aberration or the start of something.

“It’s an uptick in mortality and that doesn’t usually happen, so it’s significant,” said Robert Anderson, the chief of mortality statistics at the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “But the question is, what does it mean? We really need more data to know.”

“We are not accustomed to seeing death rates increase on a national scale,” said Andrew Fenelon, a researcher at the C.D.C. who did not work on the paper. “We’ve seen increases in mortality for some groups, but it is quite rare to see it for the whole population.”

Source: American Death Rate Rises for First Time in a Decade – The New York Times

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