Arguing About “COVID”: Metalinguistic Arguments on What Counts as a “COVID-19 Death”

Abstract In this contribution, we explore the plausibility and consequences of treating arguments over what counts as a COVID-19 death metalinguistic arguments. While unquestionably related to epidemiological public health issues, these are also about how term should be used. As such, they touch upon some foundational issues in meta-semantics, discussed recent literature on negotiations, conceptual ethics, engineering. Against background, study official statements (of WHO, governments) media reports critically reconstruct elements dispute is. We analyze particular epistemic practical reasons intertwined nuanced complex ways produce an interesting type interventions .