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That may be true, but the evidence mostly is pointing in the direction of undercounting COVID deaths. In northern Italy the official death count was less than h
by sacred_numbers 6y ago
That may be true, but the evidence mostly is pointing in the direction of undercounting COVID deaths. In northern Italy the official death count was less than half of "excess deaths", with the worst-hit areas having the most excess deaths. Certainly some of the excess deaths are due to people avoiding hospitals, or higher stress levels, but a lot are due to COVID deaths at home, or undiagnosed COVID deaths. Also, we still don't really understand this disease enough to know what effects it has on the body. There have been reports of people with COVID having strokes at much higher rates than would be expected for the same age demographic. It will be hard to tell which complications were coincidence and which were caused by COVID until later on when we have more data.
- throwaway743 6y ago> Also, we still don't really understand this disease enough to know what effects it has on the body. This is especially worrying, now that the US military is barring previously hospitalized COVID survivors from enlisting and not allowing waivers.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> This is especially worrying, now that the US military is barring previously hospitalized COVID survivors from enlisting and not allowing waivers. That's almost certainly a temporary policy because of the lack of information enacted with the expectation that it will be evolved based on future information, not something that should make the lack of information more worrying.
- throwaway743 6y agoLet's hope so
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- gvjddbnvdrbv 6y agoGiven the effects of Covid on the age range of people wanting to join the military this policy seems rather pointless. Very few people will be affected.
- throwaway743 6y agoFor sure in that regard. I'm more curious about why though? Is it because of the unknowns? Or is there a known that's being held back to avoid panic? Regardless, who knows? I'm just curious to know