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Can anyone actually tell me what was the cause of death if an 85 yo already had 3 diseases prior to this virus? If a person has a terminal disease and has N mo
by whb07 7y ago
Can anyone actually tell me what was the cause of death if an 85 yo already had 3 diseases prior to this virus?
If a person has a terminal disease and has N months to live, but dies sooner from a car accident, the net deaths did not increase. This person was on the death queue.
edit: bring the silent downvotes. Also, a number of my family have tested positive for this virus.
- nkozyra 7y agoPretty important to capture the terminal catalyst to help understand the lethality of a pathogen. "They would have died anyway" is true of anyone and tends to mask critically important information.
- whb07 7y agoIt’s true of everyone given 150 years. Sure, but an 85 yo with 3 diseases was on the front of the queue. We need to test for those who had it and didn’t die. All evidence is pointing at orders of magnitude that had it but didn’t show