Yeah; it's the latest (and probably last) stop in my checkered career.
I'm looking forward to CDC mortality data for 2021 and 2022 (available, probably, in 2024) to help sort things out.
The basic problem is this: Say you have serious heart disease, get Covid, and die. That could be either "with" or "from," and different physicians may wel…
Yeah; it's the latest (and probably last) stop in my checkered career.
I'm looking forward to CDC mortality data for 2021 and 2022 (available, probably, in 2024) to help sort things out.
The basic problem is this: Say you have serious heart disease, get Covid, and die. That could be either "with" or "from," and different physicians may well come to different conclusions. As a data guy, I would like to see a nice quantization of symptom severity to make that decision in software, but that may not be possible.
Many who die have co-morbidities, often several. If someone who has 4 chronic progressive illnesses has a massive brain hemorrhage, sepsis from a kidney infection, a fatal heart attack, those are what we list first- as required- as the cause of death. There is no motive for treating MD's to over-represent COVID as cause of death. You may as well rely on a counterfactual proposition- "If this patient didn't have COPD, ESRD, chronic CHF, diabetes and was much younger than 85, they wouldn't have died when they contracted COVID and went into severe respiratory failure".
Yeah; it's the latest (and probably last) stop in my checkered career.
I'm looking forward to CDC mortality data for 2021 and 2022 (available, probably, in 2024) to help sort things out.
The basic problem is this: Say you have serious heart disease, get Covid, and die. That could be either "with" or "from," and different physicians may well come to different conclusions. As a data guy, I would like to see a nice quantization of symptom severity to make that decision in software, but that may not be possible.
Many who die have co-morbidities, often several. If someone who has 4 chronic progressive illnesses has a massive brain hemorrhage, sepsis from a kidney infection, a fatal heart attack, those are what we list first- as required- as the cause of death. There is no motive for treating MD's to over-represent COVID as cause of death. You may as well rely on a counterfactual proposition- "If this patient didn't have COPD, ESRD, chronic CHF, diabetes and was much younger than 85, they wouldn't have died when they contracted COVID and went into severe respiratory failure".