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Re:20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes o... by 988747 on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @11:12AM (#28458256)
The major change, at least in my country, is that healthcare is so focused on COVID that they are neglecting patients with other diseases. So the excess deaths are mostly effect of that.
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Re:20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes o... by ziml77 on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @12:58PM (#28459855)
There is limited capacity to provide care for people. If people are without COVID dying because COVID cases are taking up that capacity, then COVID is a factor in those deaths as well.

One of the earliest fears about the spread of COVID was exactly this issue: too many cases would overwhelm the healthcare system and cause deaths to rise even more. Even if we couldn't stop the spread of the virus, one of the goals was to slow it down to keep the number of simultaneous cases to a minimum.

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Re:20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes o... by jazzyjackson on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @01:42PM (#28460517)
should they leave the covid patients in the hallways? whats the alternative? people dying from overloaded hospitals has always been the concern, ever since “flatten the curve”
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