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There is also worldwide an as yet unexplained 10% rise in non-covid surpluss mortality.
by PeterStuer 4y ago
There is also worldwide an as yet unexplained 10% rise in non-covid surpluss mortality.
- VyseofArcadia 4y agoI suspect a decent chunk of that is unreported/deliberately obfuscated covid deaths.
- SketchySeaBeast 4y agoI would imagine it's also 2nd order effects on the health system - delayed diagnosis, treatments, and surgeries. Full ER rooms means stroke patients don't get seen as fast, reluctance to interact with the medical system means treatment isn't sought, and devoting large swaths of hospitals to COVID patients means the "not an issue now but will be in a year" conditions aren't dealt with. I doubt many of these effects were avoidable, but it's still unfortunate.
- PeterStuer 4y agoCould be, but as it turned out Covid deaths have been significantly overattributed, so that would been a vast reversal.
- davak 4y agoThis is likely related to COVID as well, just indirectly. - Research has shown that recent COVID-19 infection increases risk of heart attacks, strokes, and a ton of other vascular diseases. - Overwhelmed hospital systems will have poorer outcomes in emergencies such as sepsis where time-based care is a huge factor. Worldwide sepsis mortality has gone up over the last two years, for example.