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I’m an ER doc, it’s unclear to me how many of these excess deaths are due to covid, or due to the covid lockdown. I am sure that many are due to covid, but pati

I’m an ER doc, it’s unclear to me how many of these excess deaths are due to covid, or due to the covid lockdown. I am sure that many are due to covid, but patients avoiding hospital due to the worry about covid, cancelling surgeries, and delaying chemotherapy adversely affects health too. The US government paying for covid care is also a positive step for society, but it does have the effect that patients who have no covid symptoms but have a positive screening test who die of non-covid pathology will end up being labelled a covid death in order to maximize the hospital and physician reimbursement.

javagram 6y ago
I’ve seen statistical analysis that shows US states that had a lockdown, but not a high number of covid cases, don’t have excess deaths. * https://twitter.com/lymanstoneky/status/1301975654771064834?s=20 https://twitter.com/lymanstoneky/status/1301975654771064834?... * https://twitter.com/lymanstoneky/status/1301976643146317825?s=20 https://twitter.com/lymanstoneky/status/1301976643146317825?... This suggests undiagnosed COVID is in fact the cause of most of the excess deaths.
- SamBam 6y ago
  That's super-interesting, thank you.