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We can say that about almost any natural cause of death, but we don't.
by robjan 7y ago
We can say that about almost any natural cause of death, but we don't.
- _-___________-_ 7y agoThe death tallies publicised for Covid-19 record the number of people who died after testing positive for this coronavirus, without any consideration for how serious their symptoms are or what other health problems contributed to their death. This is different from how basically all other respiratory infections are recorded.
- makomk 7y agoThe same isn't actually true of, say, the widely-quoted flu stats that everyone has been comparing the coronavirus to. Flu deaths are generally measured in terms of excess mortality, that is the number of deaths that occur above the normal baseline level due to the flu.