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Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Death Certificates

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

Medical History, Health & Fitness, History, Medicine, Comedy, Sawbones

4.815.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

You may have recently heard a statistic that just six percent of COVID-19 deaths are attributed to COVID alone. This statistic was based on death certificates. This week on Sawbones, we explain, through the history of this odd document, why that's a really terrible idea.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Saubones is a show about medical history, and nothing the hosts say should be taken as medical advice or opinion.

0:07.0

It's for fun. Can't you just have fun for an hour and not try to diagnose your mystery boil?

0:14.0

We think you've earned it. Just sit back, relax, and enjoy a moment of distraction from that weird growth.

0:22.0

You're worth it.

0:25.0

Alright, time is about to books. One, two, one, two, three, four.

0:33.0

We came across a pharmacy with a toy and that's lost it out. We were shot through the broken glass and had ourselves a look around.

0:56.0

Hello everybody and welcome to Saubones, I'm Errol Truvman, I'm your co-host, just a McElroy.

1:10.0

And I'm Sydney McElroy.

1:12.0

Well, I'm excited for another fun episode. You know, it's hard to see when everything's kind of dire on the planet Earth.

1:20.0

I really look forward to recording Saubones because it's a little bit of levity in my day kind of a fun time that you and me can just kind of spend together and relax and goof about stuff and I can't wait to hear about what our topic is this week.

1:36.0

Okay, well, see, Justin, I try to do things that speak to medical history but are also relevant to issues of today. Like find that blending point, you know, especially with everything that's happening with the pandemic.

1:51.0

And so this specific topic is a little, you know, not as light maybe.

2:00.0

Okay, what is the topic? Go ahead. I'm pretty much ready for whatever. I mean, I'm sure it's going to be pretty silly but what's not big.

2:06.0

Death certificates.

2:09.0

Okay.

2:10.0

Well, okay, here's why I know this seems I know this seems like a bummer.

2:16.0

But there's been a lot of talk in the media about death certificates, what's on them.

2:24.0

There was the recent, supposed like report that was put out by the CDC, although it was really just them route. They've been releasing statistics constantly.

2:35.0

So I don't think any, nothing new was really done. It was just somebody looked at the data differently is the way I would say it.

2:42.0

But basically they, there was a report that was circulated widely and was trending on Twitter for a while that only 6% that was what was trending.

2:53.0

By the way, only 6% of the deaths that have been attributed to COVID in this country are only from COVID.

3:03.0

And the way that it was worded, it sort of insinuated that all these other people that we've been told had to come to this disease actually died of something else and we've been lied to.

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