20 ms·

What?

• tonymet 1y ago
  that figure
  • thfuran 1y ago
    On what basis do you make that conclusion?
    • tonymet 1y ago
      flimsy definition of “covid death”. Questionable & in-flux PCR testing, Shoddy antibody tests (calibrated against PCR), Dubious definition of “covid disease”, e.g. “you can have covid and be asymptomatic”. 7 digits of precision. How many digits died with the actual disease, from the actual disease, or coincidentally with an antibody test? A few million elderly die each year regardless. Re-classifying a large share as “covid” is a plausible accounting mistake.
      • thfuran 1y ago
        The rest of the spitballing aside, your last point didn't hold up. Perhaps unsurprisingly, organizations like the CDC spend a lot of effort trying to get good estimates of mortality of various causes and have thought about this sort of thing before: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
        • tonymet 1y ago
          on a typical year there are 300,000 deaths due to medical error. If you tell 30% of the population to go to the hospital unnecessarily you can hit 1M excess deaths very easily. The definition of the disease and disease mortality were nebulous. If someone goes to the hospital in panic because of a cough, they are ventilated and die -- was that from covid?