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If the hospitals get overcrowded, there will also be more people dying from other causes and suffering from long term consequences, because a percentage of them
by gorbachev 6y ago
If the hospitals get overcrowded, there will also be more people dying from other causes and suffering from long term consequences, because a percentage of them won't be able to receive adequate care.
I haven't seen any actual data on how big that impact might be, however.
- jobigoud 6y agoEven without overwhelmed hospitals there is a lot of excess mortality not directly explained by published COVID-19 death numbers. Including in Sweden.