21,000 Cancer Patients Died in 2020 Lockdowns Forcing Cancelled Appointments

Before covid kicked in on full scale I worked in a med-tech startup. We had a product that orchestrated full delivery of cancer drugs, some personalised research-type drugs produced only for a single patient, we supported 2 CRISPR researches on other drugs. First, clinics in US were closed, then transport companies (specialised drug-delivery planes with freezers), at this point we knew that cancer patients will be 3rd class patients and will eventually die without treatment, likely in pain. Patients weren't allowed in to clinics to prevent them getting covid, as they were high risk (as in health and financially, for the research).

Next week the company lost financial support, 100 devs and 70 testers were made redundant. Investors and board members handled redundancy particularly bad, burnt bridges with employees who were there for the mission. Pretty much all moved to fin-tech. No one I keep contact with is thinking about getting there back with our unique knowledge of the product and industry.

Not cancer but MS here. Went through a toxic event of unknown origin, lost 18 kilos in a month - as i regained strength, and managed to actually snapped back inti reality and crawl out of my room to seek help, hospital sent me back home.

In their defense, i couldnt communicate what was wrong with me well.

Health system is a joke and still incapable of dealing with global catastrophes.

Its scary as fuck and may none of you ever need this.

The "21,000" in the title is a future projection from one source in the article estimating how many deaths will occur in the next decade. Deeply dishonest to use the past tense here

And the harmful effect of missed screening and treatment will go on for many years.

Lockdowns have a huge cost. I wish more people would see that.

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