2022 Deaths – Unknown Causes – Baby Boy – Under 1 | Texas, United States

2022 vs New Normal™ for baby boys in their first year of life in Texas

1. 650 of 1,234 total deaths were from Unknown Causes
2. 52.67% of all deaths were from Unknown Causes
3. This is down 2% compared to Old Normal rates.
4. 660 of 1,327 total deaths would have been expected under Old Normal conditions.
5. 10 fewer than expected deaths from Unknown Causes in 2022.
6. 93 fewer than expected All Cause deaths in 2022.
7. 471 fewer than expected deaths from Unknown Causes (2015-2022)
8. 1,331 fewer than expected All Cause deaths over the first 8 years of Texas’s New Normal™.

1. To show this year’s deaths from Unknown Causes are down 2% compared to Old Normal rates, we need to calculate the rates for both 2022 and for the Old Normal.

Remember, death rates are calculated to answer these questions:

• “How many baby boys in their first year of life were there?” and
• “How many of them died from Unknown Causes?”

The following 2 charts provide this information:

From the charts, we can see that in 2022, 650 of 193,727 baby boys in their first year of life living in Texas died from Unknown Causes.

650 ÷ 193,727 = 0.00336 (2022 CDR)

The table shows there were a total of 9,794 deaths from Unknown Causes among 2,874,944 baby boys in their first year of life living in Texas in the 15 years immediately prior to the New Normal™.

9,794 ÷ 2,874,944 = 0.00341 (Old Normal CDR)

We can use the Old Normal rate to predict this year’s deaths:

2022 pop X Old Normal CDR = expected deaths

193,727 X 0.00341 = 660 expected deaths

The difference between actual and expected deaths shows lives saved or lost:

650 – 660 = -10

Dividing the actual deaths by the expected deaths gives us the comparative rates:

650 ÷ 660 = 0.9820

This reveals 10 lives saved and is 98.20% of what we expected (a decrease of 2%) in deaths from Unknown Causes among baby boys in their first year of life living in Texas in 2022, as compared to the Old Normal.

This is the same method used by Public Health to calculate the 5-yr CDR (Cumulative Death Rate):

4,264 ÷ 1,387,049 = 0.00307 (5-yr CDR)

193,727(2022 pop) X 0.00307 = 596 expected deaths

The difference between actual and expected deaths:

650 – 596 = 54 or 54 lives lost

Divide actual deaths by expected deaths:

650 ÷ 596 = 1.0879 or an increase of 9%

for deaths from Unknown Causes among baby boys in their first year of life living in Texas in 2022, as compared to the previous 5 years.

Compare our Old Normal to the 5yr CDR. Does it tell the same story your TV does?

Finally, the same method can also be used to compare our Old Normal rate to the New Normal™ rate:

New Normal™ population X Old Normal rate = expected deaths

1,580,776 X 0.00341 = 5,385 expected deaths

The difference between actual and expected deaths:

4914 – 5,385 = -471 or 471 lives saved

Dividing the actual deaths by the expected deaths:

4,914 ÷ 5,385 = 0.9098 or a decrease of 9%

in deaths from Unknown Causes among baby boys in their first year of life living in Texas in the New Normal™, as compared to the Old Normal.