The two old geezers would like their death certificates to reflect reality, not politics.-
Carl Heneghan and
Tom JeffersonA recent scientific report in
Nature reported that, among 530 in-hospital deaths registered as COVID-19 deaths in seven hospitals in Athens during the Omicron wave of the pandemic, a
COVID-19-associated death was defined as ‘any death occurring in a person with positive testing for SARS-Cov-2 at the time of death.’The researchers categorised deaths into two groups: (a) deaths
“due to” COVID-19, where the infection was a direct cause or led to death, and (b) deaths
“with” COVID-19, where the infection was unrelated to the cause of death.
They used three sources for classification: the death certificate, the patient’s medical chart, and interviews with the attending physician using a structured questionnaire.
The
reanalysis reported that 290 (55%) of deaths were classified as “due to” COVID-19....