> “more than all deaths nationwide from motor vehicle accidents, infectious diseases, or battle deaths in wars during the same period.” The researchers put big

> “more than all deaths nationwide from motor vehicle accidents, infectious diseases, or battle deaths in wars during the same period.” The researchers put big numbers on the indirect impact but they were precise about what they meant. But then the journalist (or maybe college PR department?) grabbed the biggest total they could find, turned around, and compared that total-life-course indirect count to acute direct causes of mortality… sigh. Where are those EA types when we need them, with their fast-and-loose treatment of “quality-adjusted life years”?