DuPage County (IL) vs Bergamo Province (Italy): Daily Deaths, Oct 2017- May 2022

Spreadsheet pandemic

The title of this post speaks for itself.

I live in DuPage County, Illinois.

I (co)investigate the spring 2020 mass casualty event in Bergamo Province, Italy.

• Bergamo has more residents (~1.1M vs 935K); DuPage is more population-dense.

• Both locations report 80%+ uptake for the initial round of COVID shots.

• DuPage County death records are available through public records requests, and the county medical examiner is an elected official. To my knowledge, this is not the case in Bergamo.

• Readers can Google other details about each jurisdiction.

• DuPage data obtained via FOIA from DuPage County Health Department; Bergamo data from Italian Statistical Authority.

Graph 1: DuPage County resident deaths (all causes, all ages).

Graph 2: Bergamo Province resident deaths (all causes, all ages)

Graph 3: Bergamo vs DuPage, Raw Number (Same Scale)

Graph 4: Bergamo vs DuPage, Raw Number (Different Scale)

Graph 5: Bergamo vs DuPage, Pop-Adjusted

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Graph 6: Bergamo vs DuPage, Age-Adjusted

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