[ExI] rip outlaw poet

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of Stathis Papaioannou via extropy-chat
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>…The risk of dying from established appendicitis is much greater than the risk of catching and dying from COVID in hospital, but some people just don’t understand and can’t weigh probabilities. It is a kind of cognitive deficit.

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Stathis Papaioannou

 

 

 

That’s part of it.  Covid savaged nursing homes.  In many cases the patients were transferred to the local hospital after it was too late.  They expired there: hospital covid fatality rather than a nursing home-related fatality.  This practice causes the hospital to appear more risky than it really is, and the nursing home less so.  This statistical distortion may have resulted sick people staying away from the hospital and underestimating the risk of the nursing home, increasing fatalities at both sites. 

 

spike

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