Do 500 People in The US Die From Medical Error Every Two Days? Here's The Real Data
After two back-to-back mass shootings this weekend, which left over 30 people dead in the United States, science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson tweeted a series of statistics on nationwide fatality.
"On average, across any 48 hours," deGrasse Tyson wrote on Sunday, "we also lose… 500 to medical errors, 300 to the flu, 250 to suicide, 200 to car accidents, 40 to homicide via handgun
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