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Originally Posted by JMintzer
Much of that "increase in the overall death rate" has been attributed to lack of care for chronically ill patients, lack of cancer screening and treatment, and the difficulty in scheduling life saving surgery during the pandemic.
Sick patients were afraid to leave the house and put off doctor visits and care...
I saw it in my limited scope of practice. Patients who would normally come in for diabetic foot care stopped coming in until an emergency set in...
I saw a significant increase in vascular emergencies, foot ulcerations and infections...
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Much of that increase? If we take the largest increase, 16% for colorectal cancer, and use 600,000 for the number of all cancer deaths in one year, that would give 96,000 additional deaths over 5 years. Obviously, that 16% would not hold for ALL causes since it doesn't hold for all cancers and doesn't really make sense for accidents. BUT EVEN IF IT DID HOLD, it would mean 455,000 additional deaths over 5 years. Since there have been 1.5 million additional deaths over three years, at the very best, it would explain less than 30% of the additional deaths that have occurred,
leaving over 1 million deaths in the past three years with no explanation other than Covid.
Still reading the rest of the article so maybe there are some details I missed.