Around 200,000 Americans Die Every Year From Air Pollution That Meets EPA Standard

Newsweek ^ | 11/21/19 | Rosie McCall

[daniel1212]

Air pollution kills around 200,000 Americans each year even when pollution levels remain below the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's current guidelines, a report published in JAMA Network Open has found.

A team of scientists identified nine causes of death associated with exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5), including three not previously recognized—chronic kidney disease, hypertension and dementia.

Cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, type 2 diabetes, lung cancer, and pneumonia also contributed to the count.

PM2.5 are pollution particles (or droplets) equal or smaller to 2.5 microns—a size so minuscule it is roughly 30 times smaller than a strand of human hair, according to the New York State Department of Health. Exposure to PM2.5 has been linked to several health conditions, including psychiatric disorders, mental health disorders (including depression), dementia, emphysema and lung disease. There is also evidence that it is making us less intelligent.

In this study, researchers found lower income communities and black Americans were the worst affected by high levels of PM2.5, while counties in "swaths" of the Midwest, Appalachia and states like Ohio, Louisiana and Missouri had some of the highest rates of deaths linked to air pollution.

[Eleutheria5]

Deadly! People drown in it. It’ll drive you to drink.

[Dogbert41]

Good one!!!

[Eleutheria5]

They take turns. Sometimes alar in apples relieves them.

[Grampa Dave]

Everyone of fighting on either side of our civil war and world war I has died.

[Eleutheria5]

The captain of police has died
Through having lost his life.
Not very long before he died
The poor man was alive.

Victor Hugo wrote that, so it must be true.

[zeestephen]

Re: “Around 200,000 Americans Die Every Year From Air Pollution That Meets EPA Standard”

What are their names?

[daniel1212]

And amazingly enough NOBODY died of air pollution during the Corona Virus.

Actually I do not think air pollution is actually something that s to be medically listed as a COD, as it kill indirectly, though that is what Covid-19 usually does.

Table 1. Deaths involving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), pneumonia, and influenza reported to NCHS by week ending date, United States. Week ending 2/1/2020 to 4/11/2020 .* Data as of April 17, 2020

Week ending date in which the death occurred	COVID-19 Deaths (U07.1)1	Deaths from All Causes	Percent of Expected Deaths2	Pneumonia Deaths (J12.0–J18.9)3	Deaths with Pneumonia and COVID-19 (J12.0–J18.9 and U07.1)3	Influenza Deaths (J09–J11)4	Population5
Total Deaths	13,130	582,565	92	45,019	5,902	5,228	327,167,434
2/1/2020	0	56,589	95	3,639	0	454	327,167,434
2/8/2020	0	57,114	96	3,633	0	488	327,167,434
2/15/2020	0	56,143	95	3,638	0	499	327,167,434
2/22/2020	0	55,690	96	3,491	0	516	327,167,434
2/29/2020	5	55,036	96	3,516	3	586	327,167,434
3/7/2020	20	54,476	94	3,614	11	566	327,167,434
3/14/2020	44	52,704	92	3,586	22	558	327,167,434
3/21/2020	454	52,271	92	4,005	209	479	327,167,434
3/28/2020	2,339	53,687	96	5,185	1,090	368	327,167,434
4/4/2020	5,457	52,992	95	6,549	2,620	371	327,167,434
4/11/2020	4,811	35,863	65	4,163	1,947	343	327,167,434

NOTE: Number of deaths reported in this table are the total number of deaths received and coded as of the date of analysis and do not represent all deaths that occurred in that period.

*Data during this period are incomplete because of the lag in time between when the death occurred and when the death certificate is completed, submitted to NCHS and processed for reporting purposes. This delay can range from 1 week to 8 weeks or more, depending on the jurisdiction, age, and cause of death.

¹Deaths with confirmed or presumed COVID-19, coded to ICD–10 code U07.1

²Percent of expected deaths is the number of deaths for all causes for this week in 2020 compared to the average number across the same week in 2017–2019. Previous analyses of 2015–2016 provisional data completeness have found that completeness is lower in the first few weeks following the date of death (8).

³Pneumonia death counts exclude pneumonia deaths involving influenza.

⁴Influenza death counts include deaths with pneumonia or COVID-19 also listed as a cause of death.

⁵Population is based on 2018 postcensal estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau (9)

Table 2. Deaths involving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), pneumonia, and influenza reported to NCHS by age group, United States. Week ending 2/1/2020 to 4/25/2020.* Data as of April 29, 2020 [improved formatting added]
Age group	COVID-19 Deaths (U07.1)1	Deaths from All Causes	Pneumonia Deaths (J12.0–J18.9)2	Deaths with Pneumonia and COVID-19 (J12.0–J18.9 and U07.1)2	Influenza Deaths (J09–J11)3	Population4
All ages	33,513	706,401	61,898	14,910	5,792	327,167,434
Under 1 year	4	3,662	34	1	11	3,848,208
1–4 years	2	704	33	2	30	15,962,067
5–14 years	3	1,057	37	0	40	41,075,169
15–24 years	37	6,251	130	15	41	42,970,800
25–34 years	253	13,296	438	106	130	45,697,774
35–44 years	627	19,177	991	249	205	41,277,888
45–54 years	1,721	37,124	2,556	710	508	41,631,699
55–64 years	4,199	89,413	7,497	1,844	1,068	42,272,636
65–74 years	7,220	139,006	12,862	3,177	1,264	30,492,316
75–84 years	9,142	174,636	17,096	4,178	1,291	15,394,374
85 years and over	10,305	222,075	20,224	4,628	1,204	6,544,503
NOTE: Number of deaths reported in this table are the total number of deaths received and coded as of the date of analysis and do not represent all deaths that occurred in that period. *Data during this period are incomplete because of the lag in time between when the death occurred and when the death certificate is completed, submitted to NCHS and processed for reporting purposes. This delay can range from 1 week to 8 weeks or more, depending on the jurisdiction, age, and cause of death. 1Deaths with confirmed or presumed COVID-19, coded to ICD–10 code U07.1. 2Pneumonia death counts exclude pneumonia deaths involving influenza. 3Influenza death counts include deaths with pneumonia or COVID-19 also listed as a cause of death. 4Population is based on 2018 postcensal estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau (9) https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm

[semimojo]

...the enviro kooks (socialists really) refuse to acknowledge how many deaths there would be if we eliminated all progress...

Is that really the only option?

[Howie66]

Just bulldoze the whole damned thing.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Yes, for them I believe it is. They have no concept of compromise, they have no concept of the law of diminishing returns.

You are either on their side, or you’re somebody who believes everyone should be forced to drink acid and suck their oxygen from diesel exhaust pipe.

There literally is no in between with them.

[daniel1212]

What are their names?

To answer that question you need to read more of the article, as well as to try to figure how this statement could be made:

I went into it thinking pollution is color blind," co-author Dr Ziyad Al-Aly, Director of the Clinical Epidemiology Center at Washington University in St Louis, told The Guardian. "Actually, pollution itself does discriminate."

[wjcsux]

There’s only one person who ever got out of here alive.

[hinckley buzzard]

Rubbish. If the air was this clean in 1970 there would never have been a Clean Air Act, or maybe even an EPA at all. They're looking at particles so fine that we didn't even know they existed fifty years ago.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Two.

Enoch and Elijah.

Everyone else died at least once.

[wjcsux]

The clowns from Newsweak should visit a large city in China. I have been in Beijing when the tops of the buildings downtown are fuzzy due to all of the pollution.

[DUMBGRUNT]

Are they still made by Playtex?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/neil-armstrongs-spacesuit-was-made-by-a-bra-manufacturer-3652414/

[Uncle Miltie]

They should go back to coal and wood smoke.

[Pollard]

Good thing we have reduced it over the daces then. Cleaned up our rivers and lakes too in most places.

I wonder how they feel about China’s air quality?

[Steve_Seattle]

"Air pollution claims about 200,000 American deaths every year"

No one has "air pollution" listed as the cause of death in their medical record, so this is obviously some sort of agenda-driven extrapolation from deaths attributed to other causes - emphysema, asthma, etc. No major American city has serious, life-threatening air pollution at this time. The article is BS.

[daniel1212]

There’s only one person who ever got out of here alive.

Yes, besides Enoch and Elijah.