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"modern medicine" does not study cause scientifically. Instead it studies cause statistically. "May have died because..." is a case of statistical speculation. Eg. Nonsense. Even when someone dies in medical care, cause-of-death is generally a nonsense speculation, not wothly of investigation (investigation might reveal medical incompete…
"modern medicine" does not study cause scientifically. Instead it studies cause statistically. "May have died because..." is a case of statistical speculation. Eg. Nonsense. Even when someone dies in medical care, cause-of-death is generally a nonsense speculation, not wothly of investigation (investigation might reveal medical incompetence, negligence, or simply nonsense. This is even more true for COVID. Nobody dies from a SARS-COV-2 infection. People die from the consequences of the infection, combined with their physical status, their medical treatment or its absence, and many other factors. If we truly want better medical systems, treatments, and cures, we need to take a few cases, some where patients died and some where patients were cured, and study them in detail. We could then create meaningful statistics as we gather more cases. Instead, we speculate about cause of death for a few minutes, write something down because it's a blank on the death certificate, and try to gain statistical information by complex analysis of garbage data.