I can’t wait for the pandemic to be over, so that, as an epidemiologist, I can help return to tackling the other 74% chronic causes of global death.
So many people are having delayed & neglected other illnesses because of pandemic. We need to end it soon.
(HT @MaxCRoser)
So many people are having delayed & neglected other illnesses because of pandemic. We need to end it soon.
(HT @MaxCRoser)
2) excess deaths during the pandemic reflects this impact on other diseases too. People delay their doctors appts and get late cancer diagnoses and have worse outcomes, just to name one example. But it is pandemic related due to hospitals overwhelmed. We need to end COVID now!
https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1362006269545095174
3) We are likely going to lose way more than just one year of life expectancy when data for July 2020 - June 2021 comes out next year... it’s gonna be much worse.
https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1362371217261355008
4) 500k is undercounting total pandemic deaths - from not just undercounted Covid deaths but also delayed treatments and other issues. Excess deaths already near 600k.
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1363354065623789569
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