Not Covid but medical errors deadliest threat

While news media focus almost completely on COVID cases and deaths, a different type of pandemic has been boiling under the radar the entire time: Deaths caused by medical errors are running rampant.

As reported by STAT News, injury or illness caused by health care providers and/or the care itself in the form of medical devices, lab errors and more, is “so widespread, so frequent, so massive, and so continuous that it rarely makes headlines.”

 

 

And, to make matters worse, these massive injuries and deaths are easy for health care providers to hide. “Death by medical error or accident is the nation’s leading cause of accidental death, exceeding all other causes of accidental death combined. Medical error and accidents kill approximately as many people each month in the U.S. as Covid-19 did before vaccines became available,” STAT News says.

From surgical mishaps to lab mix ups to equipment and device problems, to dosage mistakes, the errors just keep piling up.