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by jandrewrogers 1276 days ago
Interestingly, traumatic brain injury is responsible for more deaths than influenza. If we all wore helmets it would save a lot of lives.
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Traumatic brain injury is much easier to attribute to a death, rather than viruses that are more likely to be involved in some other cause of death, like a bacterial pneumonia.

If I learned anything from COVID times, it's that attributing deaths is complex, and roughly up to whoever writes the death certificate