One category of deaths in America is up 40% from pre-pandemic levels according to a report by Margaret Menge, a contributor to The Center Square, in Indiana.

And the category is not seniors but Americans ages 18-64 – working-age people.

“We are seeing, right now, the highest death rates we have seen in the history of this business – not just at OneAmerica,” the company’s CEO Scott Davison said in December. “The data is consistent across every player in that business.”

OneAmerica is a $100 billion insurance company with headquarters in Indianapolis since 1877. It has about 2,400 employees and sells life insurance, including group life insurance to employers in the state.

These are huge numbers.

Davison said that’s it’s not just elderly people who are dying, but “primarily working-age people 18 to 64” who are the employees of companies that have group life insurance plans through OneAmerica.

The trend was consistent in the second half of 2021. Davison said in normal times, a 10% number would be a “one-in-200-year catastrophe.”

He said. “So 40% is just unheard of.”

Most of the claims for deaths being filed are not classified as COVID-19 deaths, Davison said. “What the data is showing to us is that the deaths that are being reported as COVID deaths greatly understate the actual death losses among working-age people from the pandemic. It may not all be COVID on their death certificate, but deaths are up just huge, huge numbers.”

His company expects losses of well over $100 million and that will mean higher costs to employers who purchase group life insurance.

Indiana death figures (working-age people) in November from the Centers for Disease Control (which can take two months to surface) showed fewer deaths from the pandemic but seven times as many deaths from other causes – for people of all ages. Hospitalizations are way up.

One conclusion is that overall health in America has declined in the past two years. The other frightening conclusion is that the Biden Administration is hiding the facts about the tragedy of failed policies to combat the virus.