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“Excess deaths” can mean undiagnosed Covids OR death from staying at home too much.

• voisin 4y ago
  Both related to Covid, no?
  • willcipriano 4y ago
    Consider the case of a 1800's patient who undergoes bloodletting, exsanguination is caused by their condition in the same manner that side effects of lock downs are caused by covid.
  • smeej 4y ago
    Sort of, but the opporunity to fix them would be different. There's not a whole lot you can do to alter the effect a virus has on a human body (at least not immediately after discovering it), but you might be able to learn a lot from the effects of various types of government intervention, what helped and what hurt, and make plans that reduce the negative effects the next time action is needed.
  • harryf 4y ago
    The real question that needs answering is what the cost of lockdowns was and for that we’d need to compare to suicide statistics for the same period.