The medical certificate usually has an immediate cause and a spot to write underlying causes. It goes to the local government and is used for things like life i

The medical certificate usually has an immediate cause and a spot to write underlying causes. It goes to the local government and is used for things like life insurance, lawsuits, etc. If there’s a concern at the policy level, usually you’d have a separate monitoring system. Driving policy with population stats is not really the gold standard, in spite of what was communicated to the public during the pandemic. Usually you’d want to run some kind of controlled experiment or very rigorous observational study. That’s where the bulk of the success stories in medicine have come from historically.