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It's also not unrealistic to assume that a nonzero number of people died because they weren't able to receive specialized treatment or care due to the lockdowns
by jterrys 5y ago
It's also not unrealistic to assume that a nonzero number of people died because they weren't able to receive specialized treatment or care due to the lockdowns impacting hospital services.
- danesparza 5y agoSurgeries and other appointments stopped briefly. And then resumed. This would be a good guess if the excess deaths followed that same pattern. And yet the excess deaths didn't follow that same pattern.
- lolinder 5y agoThe full stop on surgeries and appointments isn't the only thing that could impact excess deaths. What about people who don't go in for preventative care? Or missed checkups causing a problem to go unnoticed until it's too late? Or mistakes made by overwhelmed hospital staff working long hours? Just because the hospitals were open doesn't mean people chose to go in, and even if they went in they may not have had the same level of care they would have pre-pandemic.
- walls 5y agoHow exactly do lockdowns impact hospital services?
- infamouscow 5y agoIt was the policy of most health administrators to cancel preventative health appointments used to screen and provide early treatment options for things like cancer.