death statistics

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Research has shown that people develop kidney disease as a result of heat stress; over time, that can lead to deaths that are not likely to be counted in official heat-related death statistics, Padilla said.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2023

China's ministry of civil affairs, which collates death statistics, has not published nationwide cremation data covering that period.

From Reuters • Jul. 18, 2023

Heat death statistics, everybody acknowledges, are wildly underestimated.

From Slate • Jul. 12, 2023

But that number may be an underestimate; advocates for detainees have accused the agency of releasing people or deporting them when they are seriously ill as a way to suppress the death statistics.

From Salon • Dec. 25, 2022

In such an atmosphere of thought it is no wonder that the death statistics were appalling.

From History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by White, Andrew Dickson