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So let me run you through an interesting question: Let us assume a person falls ill from some issue requiring a hospital. They go to a hospital but because of
by sloaken 7y ago
So let me run you through an interesting question: Let us assume a person falls ill from some issue requiring a hospital. They go to a hospital but because of all the Covid patients, they cannot get in and die on the street. Does that count?
Because of the variable standards and testing methods, I have heard it said (probably on HN), the best standard is to compare last years death rate with this year. And that would be the number attributable to Covid.
- ionantonescu100 7y agoI think that may be biased as well (comparing number of deaths to last year). Again, not sure if this applies globally, but where I live at the moment they only treat emergency cases and covid. So if you have some heart affection (or whatever) then you may not get appointments, get regular checks and so on. So basically you can't do prevention. This may cause an increase in deaths because people simply don't go to doctors to keep their health in check.
- Gibbon1 7y ago> I have heard it said (probably on HN), the best standard is to compare last years death rate with this year. Financial Times article showing plots of that. https://www.ft.com/content/6bd88b7d-3386-4543-b2e9-0d5c6fac846c https://www.ft.com/content/6bd88b7d-3386-4543-b2e9-0d5c6fac8... I agree with that excess mortality is likely to capture the true state of things. Or at least it's primary outcome.