Abstract
In this brief communication, we discuss the confusion of mortality with fatality in the interpretation of evidence in the COVID-19 pandemic, and how this confusion affects the translation of science into policy and practice. We discuss how this confusion has influenced COVID-19 policy in France, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, and discuss the implications for decision-making about COVID-19 vaccine distribution. We also discuss how this confusion is an example of a more general statistical fallacy we term the "Missing Link Fallacy.”
Keywords: Mortality, fatality, COVID-19, methods, policy, Missing Link Fallacy
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