I'd be shocked if this was anywhere near reality. Covid hasn't been an issue any of the hospitals that I work at to the point that many doctors and nurses don't even bother with N95 masks when seeing covid patients.
It's more likely this is people dying with covid and not from covid. If someone covid positive has a stroke or heart attack which column is that being written in?
I have had to write my share of death certificates, and most docs will write the easiest thing that gets the corner off their back. These statistics may be broadly true
medicine is unlike technology in that it has a much much higher level of human error in data points (intentional or not).
> Covid hasn't been an issue any of the hospitals that I work at to the point that many doctors and nurses don't even bother with N95 masks when seeing covid patients.
Damn, where are you at? Got ~75 hospital and care home units in active COVID-19 outbreak right now in Toronto. And outbreak doesn't include people that arrived with it, just spread within the unit.
Wastewater numbers clearly show extremely high # of cases.
And anecdotally - I just got it 3 weeks ago, along with my whole household (Hamilton area), after avoiding it for the entire time prior to this. My elderly parents got it a couple weeks before that. Coworkers of mine got it. It's all over the place right now.
Just got back from the family dr's office today. The doctors were all in masks. The nurses weren't bothering.
It's more likely this is people dying with covid and not from covid. If someone covid positive has a stroke or heart attack which column is that being written in?
I have had to write my share of death certificates, and most docs will write the easiest thing that gets the corner off their back. These statistics may be broadly true
medicine is unlike technology in that it has a much much higher level of human error in data points (intentional or not).