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Are you saying a spike in non-covid deaths — e.g., heart-attack, etc? That’s certainly a possibility and one of the main dangers at the moment with an overwhelm
by gdubs 7y ago
Are you saying a spike in non-covid deaths — e.g., heart-attack, etc? That’s certainly a possibility and one of the main dangers at the moment with an overwhelmed healthcare system. It also raises an interesting question of how you account for the toll of the disease: on one hand you have deaths due to the disease itself, and on the other deaths that could have been preventable had the disease not overwhelmed hospitals.
- scarmig 7y agoDepending on how you count, you could hypothetically end up with mortality rates >100%. I.e. a disease that kills everyone it infects, and also closes down a hospital causing deaths among people it doesn't infect.