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> people don't want to go to hospital for fear of catching it themselves To be exact, this group of deaths would be caused by the fear of COVID, as you say.

• harikb 7y ago
  How about we at least track those deaths caused by unavailable treatment or postponed, but critical surgeries. If my community is affected I don’t care if Covid is killing us directly or indirectly. They all should be counted at least under a different category. Ignoring them would like claiming puerto rico only had 100 deaths from hurricane
  • guscost 7y ago
    The "direct/indirect" distinction is very important because once we have more perspective on this disaster, we should try to find out whether the alarm and the various extreme measures helped or not, and to what extent. I'm not saying that we should ignore the downstream effects of the pandemic, I'm saying the opposite - we should look at them with extreme scrutiny.
    • goatlover 7y ago
      Exactly. That would be very helpful for the next pandemic.