[jansan]

There is non-anectodal evidence. In Hamburg/Germany they conducted more than 190 autopsies and found a surprising number of thrombosis. About 30% of the patients who dies with COVID-19 may have actually died from lung embolism.

[lbeltrame]

In Italy most hospitals are treating hospitalized patients with heparin exactly for this reason. The government forbade autopsies, but some doctors did them anyway and came back with the same result as Hamburg (note: some virologists called those findings "baloney" in public when they were shared, shortly before the Hamburg study came out).

[jansan]

The German official institution for disease prevention (RKI) also discouraged from making autopsies. The Hamburg pathologists did not give a shit, said that it is their job to find out what happened and carried on. I am so happy that there are still many people out there who can think for themselves.

[ComputerGuru]

Why are autopsies being forbidden/discouraged? Is it to minimize biohazards and contamination?

[lbeltrame]

In the Italian case, safety was mentioned, and the governmental expert panel was quoted as saying that autopsies were unnecessary since the cause of death was known.

[umanwizard]

Fraction of people who died is a completely different metric from fraction of people admitted to the hospital.

[jansan]

That is correct. The headline is misleading, but there is data to backup what the the content claims. That's what I was pointing out.