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doesn't this cut both ways though? you could be severely sick with some other disease then get COVID19 in addition, what killed you? I think 10 years from now
by glofish 6y ago
doesn't this cut both ways though?
you could be severely sick with some other disease then get COVID19 in addition, what killed you?
I think 10 years from now we will look back at this time as the time where everything was counted as COVID19
- pgwhalen 6y agoDespite the your downvoters, there is good evidence to suggest we are already doing that in the US. According to the CDC, for the week ending in 5/9, there were more COVID19 deaths than there were "excess" deaths. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm These data are subject to being modified after the fact.
- aianus 6y ago> there were more COVID19 deaths than there were "excess" deaths This still makes sense if the lockdown has lowered other causes of death like car crashes.
- pgwhalen 6y agoFair point. Though the excess seems to already eclipse car crash deaths in their entirety, and I'm not sure if other major causes of accidental deaths (e.g. drug overdoses) would really be expected to go down during a lockdown. https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-mortality-risk https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-mortalit...
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoIt does - there are surely some number of deaths that would be recorded as flu deaths if doctors considered that a reasonable thing to do. I don't think any conclusions in any direction can be drawn from the comparison.