My aunt had some worrying health signs in February of 2020 and her doctor scheduled some scans to followup, to look for cancer. The pandemic hit. All non-essen

My aunt had some worrying health signs in February of 2020 and her doctor scheduled some scans to followup, to look for cancer. The pandemic hit. All non-essential medical procedures were put on hold until further noticed. Hospitals were either too full or getting ready to become too full. Her scans got delayed. This delayed finding the cancer, delayed chemo, delayed everything. She made it only a few days into 2021. If they had caught it just a little bit earlier, well, who knows what might have been. She never caught covid-19. But I view her as a casualty of the pandemic. And this is why excess deaths is a more important measure than how many corpses you can find virus particles in.