According to Prof John Ioannidis, the cause of 2.6 million* COVID-19 deaths was...pretty much everything except the disease *likely a substantial undercountpic.twitter.com/wln4hj79EA
Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him
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According to Prof John Ioannidis, the cause of 2.6 million* COVID-19 deaths was...pretty much everything except the disease *likely a substantial undercountpic.twitter.com/wln4hj79EA
"Lack of vaccination" How dare science not come up with a vaccine immediately.
I'm sorry to be this direct, but Ioannnidis is a joke.
By this logic, literally every cause of death category should be changed from, e.g., heart disease, to whatever that idiotic list is.
Because then we're literally just redefining the word "cause" to a useless meaning
In this case, the virus clearly exhibits higher mortality when you have the things that he's stating (chronic inflammation, inflammaging, inequity issues, etc.). When you don't have those syndemic parameters, the virus is not more harmful that a common cold.
That is a factually incorrect assertion. In reality, the predominant driver of mortality is age. I also wonder how fatal you think the common cold would be if we solved global inequality and had a vaccine etc?
Age is associated with inflammaging which is basically chronic inflammation, so I'm not wrong. It would be less fatal. I actually is less fatal due to the vaccine. Even if those vaccines are actually not so good.
COVID-19 is many times more deadly than the common cold. Probably somewhere around 100x, depending on the virus. If we were to, say, eliminate global inequity, this would reduce the severity of both the cold and COVID, but COVID would still be much worse
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