Weight loss jabs like Ozempic and Mounjaro 'linked to 170 deaths' - including adults in their 20s

The UK reporting system works the same way as the US version: any member of the public can submit a suspicion, no doctor or coroner required. Someone could hear that a neighbor took the drug and file a report on that alone. Every time that kind of loose reporting happens it messes up the weekend for the people actually studying the data.

Years back a friend was stopped at a red light when a delivery truck slammed into him head-on. It wrecked his mobility for months and the phrase about getting hit by a cash register turned out to be literally true in his case.

I once knew a woman in Chicago who was killed on her motorcycle while stopped at a red light when a car rear-ended her. At the time I was teaching motorcycle safety classes and the story kept coming up; it made the whole effort feel grimly pointless.

You do realize the company named in the headline actually makes one of the drugs being discussed, right?

That pretty much sums up the usual approach from that particular newspaper.

Exactly. Using the figures given in the piece, 173 deaths out of roughly 1.7 million users works out to a 0.01 percent rate. The chance of dying from brain freeze after eating ice cream is probably higher.