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Isn't "total mortality due to COVID-19" different than "total mortality from COVID-19"? As I understand the cancer treatments were aborted due COVID-19, therefo
by pelasaco 6y ago
Isn't "total mortality due to COVID-19" different than "total mortality from COVID-19"? As I understand the cancer treatments were aborted due COVID-19, therefore, more person died due to COVID-19 but not necessarily from COVID-19... does it make sense?
- hervature 6y agoI think that's exactly the criticism of this paper. They are precisely saying "total mortality due to COVID-19" = "total mortality from COVID-19". From the paper: > for now we assume that total COVID-19 deaths equal excess mortality
- betwixthewires 6y agoWell that's a question of if you think the lockdowns were necessary or not. If you think they were, then of course excess mortality is due to covid. If you think they weren't then that excess mortality was due to unneeded human intervention. Of course the answer is somewhere in between, that is, some degree of lockdowns and therefore the deaths attendant to that were overzealous, and that throws this entire model in the trash.