Mortality Among White Collar Workers Jumped 24 Percent Between 2020 And 2021, Life Insurance Data Show Mortality Among White Collar Workers Jumped 24 Percent Between 2020 And 2021, Life Insurance Data Show Authored by Petr Svab via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The increase in deaths not attributed to COVID-19 in the working-age population during the summer and into the fall of last year hit white-collar workers more than the blue- and grey-collar ones, according to life insurance data. First responders load a patient into an ambulance from a nursing home where multiple people have contracted COID-19 on April 17, 2020 in Chelsea, Massachusetts. (Scott Eisen|Getty Images) In the white-collar sector, mortality jumped 24 percent in the period the data pertained to (April 2020-September 2021). Less than 64 percent of those were attributed to COVID-19. In the blue-collar sector, mortality increased by 19 percent, of which over 80 percent was attributed to COVID-19. Insurance company Q1 group life loss ratios vs 2019. Down from mandate death spikes but still elevated at 20%-30%. $SCI funeral contract volume was 17% above Q1 2020. $HIG 24% $LNC 32% $MET 22% $PRU 24% So looks like 20% excess deaths in Q1.