Re:Covid wards 'full of children' for first time in pandemic...
by DanBC on Sunday January 03, 2021 @05:59AM
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> he years of life lost to COVID-19 is minuscule - many deaths are simply "pulled forward" by 6 months or a year.
Imagine your aunt is being transported to the hospice and there is a road traffic accident and she dies in that accident. What killed her, the RTA or her failing liver?
Imagine she gets to the hospice safely, and a negligent nurse gives her a triple dose of some medication and she dies. What killed her, the failing liver or the incompetent nurse?
People seem to misunderstand how cause of death is worked out.
> he years of life lost to COVID-19 is minuscule - many deaths are simply "pulled forward" by 6 months or a year.
We know from the first wave that covid-19 was killing people on average 11 years before they would have died otherwise.
Imagine your aunt is being transported to the hospice and there is a road traffic accident and she dies in that accident. What killed her, the RTA or her failing liver?
Imagine she gets to the hospice safely, and a negligent nurse gives her a triple dose of some medication and she dies. What killed her, the failing liver or the incompetent nurse?
People seem to misunderstand how cause of death is worked out.
> he years of life lost to COVID-19 is minuscule - many deaths are simply "pulled forward" by 6 months or a year.
We know from the first wave that covid-19 was killing people on average 11 years before they would have died otherwise.