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To put this in perspective, in 2017, 62797 people in California died of heart disease, which is about 172 deaths a day. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/stat
by chubot 6y ago
To put this in perspective, in 2017, 62797 people in California died of heart disease, which is about 172 deaths a day.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/states/california/california.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/states/california/califor...
So it sounds like it's by far the #1 cause of death, but not clear if it outnumbers all causes of death combined (I'd be interested in more info)
- throwaway201103 6y agoA fairly safe bet that heart disease is a comorbidity in many of the COVID deaths.
- bestnameever 6y agoAlso a safe bet that that without Covid, many of those people would be alive today.
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- kyriakos 6y agoExactly this is what a lot of deniers fail to understand. People do die from underlying causes when infected by covid but those causes would have been manageable without covid.