Damaged block heater cord could give you shock and awe. â General Motors is recalling almost 3000 vehicles that use a specific block heater. GM named the recalled vehicles as the 2013-2014 Buick Encore, Buick Verano, Chevy Cruze and the 2012-2014 Chevy Sonic.
It seems that 3.68% of the total population is found to be hard of hearing and 0.3% of the total population is functionally Deaf, out of a total population of about 268,000,000 (2005) living souls in the US. Half of both proposed figures seems to be older than 65 years of age.
Figure 2. Across all age groups, approximately 600,000 people in the United States (0.22% of the population, or 2.2 per 1,000) are deaf; more than half are over 65 years of age. About 6,000,000 people (2.2%) report having a lot of trouble hearing with, again, more than half over 65 years of age.