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MidAtlanticDad10,000+ posts

@luv baseball posted:
We are still only half way to the number of people ding that are killed by medical professionals each year. That's right estimates are medical mistakes kill about 275,000 people each year. Yet here we are thinking the plague has arrived among us and we must "show" we are doing something to defeat it.

I don’t like posting on these threads, but I feel like it’s necessary when information is inaccurately presented as “facts”. One legitimate study by a surgeon at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine used insurance claims related to medical mistakes from 2000-2008 to estimate 250,000 deaths annually from medical mistakes. No other study supports that number, or even comes close. Medical mistakes are real, but most other studies put the number at less than 10% of that. Using real data from CDC, COVID-19 will be the 3rd leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2020 after Heart Disease and Cancer.

8/11/209:56 AM

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