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Dec 16, 2021·edited Dec 16, 2021Liked by T Coddington

Age isn't a relevant criterion. It correlates because lots of old people have accumulated conditions caused by decades of poor choices. Many don't. These underlying conditions are what produces the immune deficiencies that contribute to serious outcomes to infections. This virus is easy prey for healthy immune systems. The real scandal is healthy immune systems are easy to maintain, but not profitable for the medical industrial complex. They have a name for obese diabetics who sit indoors watching sitcoms so have low vitamin D -- customers.

They're updating the census this year, apparently. Harassed me for months. Who does that -- commerce? They have the data you want, but not the data you need. I don't know if they'll give it to you.

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Perhaps IPUMS has the data in a format that you might find more usable. See: https://www.ipums.org/ - I think that IPUMS NHGIS looks promising, based on your comments; https://www.nhgis.org/

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That's where I was gonna say to go. County level data is a mess in the CDC databases that I've seen. Was working with some of the datasets months ago and settled on state because cleaning the county data would take way longer than I had.

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