i don't understand why you got downvoted. We don't consider someone dying from a cold if he's 80yo with heart attack. We're introducing a novel way of counting

i don't understand why you got downvoted. We don't consider someone dying from a cold if he's 80yo with heart attack. We're introducing a novel way of counting casualities, and this is problematic whenever we want to account for the severity of the virus. Now on the other side, hospitals usually aren't flooded the way they are at the moment, or at least that's my impression. So there is definitely something special about the epidemic (although we don't know why : maybe it's just extremely contagious, and makes everybody become sick about the same time, instead of a natural spread for the flu ?)