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Comorbidities include obesity, hypertension, diabetes. To exclude covid deaths because of those would be just as absurd as that prostate cancer statement.
by Scarblac 7y ago
Comorbidities include obesity, hypertension, diabetes. To exclude covid deaths because of those would be just as absurd as that prostate cancer statement.
- thu2111 7y agoWhy? Bear in mind what we want here is not some absolute, objective truth which cannot exist anyway - as pointed out in other comments, where do you draw the line with this stuff? If someone is 90 and dies after having tested positive, did they die of a new preventable disease or was it just their time? The distinction can end up being arbitrary. What people care about is numbers comparable with other diseases so the strength of response can be correctly calibrated. And clearly these numbers are useless for that, especially as flu isn't tracked or reported in the same way.