Anyway, CDC has studied that issue and their verdict on it was that that is not true. And there's many other studies. There's another famous study called McKinley and McKinley that says that Fewer than 1% of the decline in fatalities mortalities from infectious disease can be attributed to all medical interventions, including surgeries, antibiotics and vaccines. The real heroes of human health in this country were engineers. They weren't. It wasn't the medical community. That's true. It's true of war too. More people usually die of. (30:52–31:10)
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Asserts that less than 1% of the decline in infectious disease fatalities is due to medical interventions.
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