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Four times as many people have already died from COVID-19 Died with SARS-CoV-2, not because of it. As far as I know died "because of" isn't tracked or publishe
by thu2111 7y ago
Four times as many people have already died from COVID-19
Died with SARS-CoV-2, not because of it. As far as I know died "because of" isn't tracked or published by any country. And "died with" doesn't mean much (anything?) because coronaviruses of all kinds are so frequently co-present in natural deaths of old age anyway.
For example in 2006 there was what appeared to be an outbreak of SARS in an old people's home in Canada:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2095096/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2095096/
It turned out to be false positives on the kits and the real coronavirus was a fairly ordinary strain. Nonetheless the measured death rate was 5%.
When you see things like this it becomes apparent how carefully statistics like death rate must be used (or not used). We have literally no solid data in this epidemic. Every piece of evidence, every anecdote turns out on investigation to have enormous caveats or be misleading.