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I'm pretty sure 6% was deaths where "only" covid was listed. In most cases, doctors are more specific. So they may put covid & pneumonia. Pneumonia being any i
by jjeaff 6y ago
I'm pretty sure 6% was deaths where "only" covid was listed.
In most cases, doctors are more specific. So they may put covid & pneumonia. Pneumonia being any infection of the lower respiratory system. Which would in almost all cases, be caused by covid unless they also had a separate infection.
Doctors will also often list complicating factors like obesity (45% of Americans are clinically obese).
This is actually right along with the confusion of the public and media for the official coroner's report. The coroner listed cardiopulmonary arrest as the cause of death "complicated by" (in other words "brought on by") someone pinning him to the ground and blocking his airway. Drugs in his system and prior health conditions were listed in the report as any thorough coroner's report should. But they were not listed as complicating factors for his death.
Cardiopulmonary arrest is -not- a heart attack. (that's a myocardial infarction). It means your heart stopped pumping and your lungs stopped functioning. Which is how most people die.