Counting deaths treats an 85-year-old who dies three years early and
a 25-year-old who takes their own life as the same event. They are not.
U.S. COMPARISON SUMMARY
An Enormous Disparity
Childhood trauma
1.783 billion
Cancer
12.4 million
Heart disease
10.5 million
Accidents
5.6 million
Stroke
2.4 million
COVID-19, peak year
1.0 million
Years of life lost, annually, United States
1.783 billion years. More than 23 million complete human lifespans. Roughly
127,000 years vanish every day — more than 88 complete lifetimes every hour.
More than all of those combined, and then multiplied more than fifty times over.