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Diabetes and Asthma are common comorbidities for COVID-19 deaths. Those conditions traditionally have a very small impact on normal life expectancy all other t
by slg 6y ago
Diabetes and Asthma are common comorbidities for COVID-19 deaths. Those conditions traditionally have a very small impact on normal life expectancy all other things being equal. I think you are being thrown off by the "morbidity" part of that word. It is another factor that contributed to the person's death. It doesn't mean the person would have died from that condition absent COVID-19.
>These deaths are therefore the result of mostly fraud and when the real numbers are considered (probably something closer to 15-25% of what's being reported) then this disease is something that lags behind many other diseases currently circulating in the population that the media just ignores.
If the COVID-19 death total is inflated, how do you explain the huge rise in excess deaths? Here is one article that talks about comorbidities and excess deaths.[1]
[1] - https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/09/01/comorbidities-and-coronavirus-deaths-cdc/ https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/09/01/comorbidities-and-coronavirus...
- nradov 6y agoOn average diabetes causes 4.4 years of life lost, or about a 6% decrease in lifespan. https://nccd.cdc.gov/Toolkit/DiabetesBurden/YLL https://nccd.cdc.gov/Toolkit/DiabetesBurden/YLL
- slg 6y agoThat doesn't actually link to the source and I couldn't find it with a couple Googling attempts. I would be curious to see how they correct for the fact that Type 2 diabetes is often a symptom of poor health as much as a cause of poor health. That is why I included the "all other things being equal" disclaimer. Long term health for people with diabetes is hugely impacted by continued maintenance and therefore there is likely some bias in the data when comparing health rates of diabetes patients to people without diabetes.