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Can you not attribute a death to a disease? Covid19 is the name of the disease not the virus.
by s_dev 7y ago
Can you not attribute a death to a disease? Covid19 is the name of the disease not the virus.
- s9w 7y agoBut we don't know if covid19 was the main cause of death
- mantap 7y agoSure you could have COVID-19 and then get hit by a car, but in almost all cases pneumonia from COVID-19 is the acute cause of death even if they have some other chronic health problems.
- s9w 7y agoWhy would you assume that? There was a comorbidity study from Italy that did not hint at that at all.
- s_dev 7y agoThese specific deaths are being labelled as the official cause was Covid19. So I think we can know. There are other deaths that didn't occur in hospitals under professionals so those deaths "may" be Covid19. This is litterally the evidence we're using the justify the lockdowns. Initially I thought it was some grammatical thing you were getting at e.g. a building is evacuated not a person.
- _-___________-_ 7y agoThe death counts being publicised are the number of confirmed cases that died. In other words, if you test positive for coronavirus and then die, that's +1 for the number of Covid-19 deaths in that country. This is not the way deaths related to any other respiratory infection are recorded.
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- gambiting 7y agoEven if it was only contributing - it should be counted. I've told this story before - my dad has fought cancer for 8 years before he died, he was in paliatative care and one night his heart just couldn't go any longer and he passed away. What do you think he has officially died "from"? Any sensible person would list his specific cancer as the cause of death, right? Nope, all the hospital wrote in his report was "died of cardiac arrest". So he exists in a statistical report somewhere as a 50 year old who died of...heart problems. That probably leads to some other people somewhere else going "hmmmmm, we have a weirdly large number of people dying from heart problems lately - better increase the cardiology budget!". Do you see what I'm going at? Even if someone already had ongoing problems when they got covid19, both should be listed as the cause of death.
- s9w 7y agohttps://www.lehighvalleylive.com/coronavirus/2020/03/first-lehigh-county-resident-to-die-from-the-coronavirus-was-80-official-says.html https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/coronavirus/2020/03/first-l...
- gambiting 7y agoI read the article - is there anything I should be looking at in particular?
- s9w 7y agoI should have elaborated, sorry. I'm actually trying to make the exact same point you are. People die, and there are sometimes various causes. In your case it was cardiac arrest that "masked" cancer or at least is only half of the whole story. Now with many sars-cov-2 stories when you dig into individual cases you often find things like in the article: Two people died from a fall. They also had a positive test but I would argue the fall was definitely the major cause of death. They still are in the "died from" number almost all news outlets spew out right now.