Death certificates

There comes a point in the care of an acutely critically ill patient when you can do no more for them; you’ve maxed out your options, and the outcome is out of your hands.

First, let me get this off my chest. What is the value of these articles, especially those purporting to show no more significant deaths in 2020 than 2019? Will that mean that COVID-19 is a hoax, perpetrated for some ulterior motive?

The table seen below this paragraph was taken from a poster [1] at the European and International Congress on Obesity, which shows the number of individ

Whether this reflects an over or undercount is unclear, you are welcome to your opinion. But it makes all the subsequent analysis just a little more imprecise and should make us not quite so definitive in our conclusions.