Except that most of the people who died "of COVID" were people with one foot already in the grave and the other on a banana peel. In other words, they had very little remaining life expectancy under normal circumstances. Thus what portion of them would still be alive today if COVID had never existed is rather questionable.
"most of those people would still be alive."
Except that most of the people who died "of COVID" were people with one foot already in the grave and the other on a banana peel. In other words, they had very little remaining life expectancy under normal circumstances. Thus what portion of them would still be alive today if COVID had never existed is rather questionable.
The study doesn't meet the threshold of a randomized trial, but it's still better (much better!) than doing nothing because of ideological grounds.