45.28% of recorded COVID-19 deaths reassessed as not directly attributable to COVID
Published: 21 April 2025:
Deaths “due to” COVID-19 and deaths “with” COVID-19 during the Omicron variant surge, among hospitalized patients in seven tertiary-care hospitals, Athens, Greece:
Abstract:
"In Greek hospitals, all deaths with a positive SARS-CoV-2 test are counted as COVID-19 deaths. Our aim was to investigate whether COVID-19 was the primary cause of death, a contributing cause of death or not-related to death amongst patients who died in hospitals during the Omicron surge and were registered as COVID-19 deaths....
Among 530 in-hospital deaths, registered as COVID-19 deaths, in seven hospitals in Athens during the Omicron wave, 240 (45.28%) were reassessed as not directly attributable to COVID-19..."
(Basoulis, D., Logioti, K., Papaodyssea, I. et al. Deaths “due to” COVID-19 and deaths “with” COVID-19 during the Omicron variant surge, among hospitalized patients in seven tertiary-care hospitals, Athens, Greece. Sci Rep 15, 13728 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-98834-y)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-98834-y
Attributable:
“If something is attributable to an event, situation, or person, it is likely that it was caused by that event, situation or person:
10,000 deaths a year from chronic lung disease are attributable to smoking.
The mess was directly attributable to a corrupt and incompetent official.”
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