Millions die every year for we are mortal and numerous. Thankfully, the world's population grew during the pandemic. 210,000 to 448,000 Americans die every yea

Millions die every year for we are mortal and numerous. Thankfully, the world's population grew during the pandemic. 210,000 to 448,000 Americans die every year to preventable medical errors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preventable_causes_of_death#Annual_number_of_deaths_and_causes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preventable_causes_of_death#An... This is more people than COVID kills in the same time period, but strangely there's no panic about that. No mandates. No significant steps from any authorities to do anything about it. Perhaps because there's no money in that, unlike pushing a remedy for something that's not as significant as people feel. edit: Since HN is ratelimiting me and not letting me reply to the below, here's the reply I've tried posting after an hour of "slowing down": Checklists: https://www.hg.org/legal-articles/checklists-can-reduce-fatal-medical-errors-19080 https://www.hg.org/legal-articles/checklists-can-reduce-fata... The same thing NASA uses to prevent human error: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19910001641 https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19910001641 Mandatory checklists would wipe out most of them, yet there's no mandate for them.