An Irish science journalist is asking a pointed question about COVID-19 diagnoses after a new report showed that people with lung cancer may have been misdiagnosed with coronavirus.
Calling it an “obsession with COVID-19,” the journalist notes that in the U.K. lung cancer kills 35,000 people every year — and the COVID-19 misdiagnoses may be responsible for even more lung cancer deaths in 2020. “And it is all thanks to the lockdowns,” says Peter Andrews, who is based in London and who has a background in life sciences.
To prove his point, he explains that lung cancer referrals fell by 75% in spring 2020, and that at least a third of people lung cancer have already died. “What this all boils down to, according to the report, is an additional 1,372 deaths due to lung cancer,” Andrews says.