3 ms·
>For the first time in human history, more people die from diseases that come as a consequence of old age — such as cancer and heart attacks — than infectious d
by jokethrowaway 6y ago
>For the first time in human history, more people die from diseases that come as a consequence of old age — such as cancer and heart attacks — than infectious disease.
I wonder how they count covid deaths in this.
Maybe covid deaths with no co-morbidities = infectious, covid deaths with co-morbidities = specific co-morbidity?
- marcusverus 6y agoThe annual number of age-related deaths seems to be around 10X the number of COVID deaths (so far), so the distinction likely doesn't have any bearing on the veracity of the statement. Global deaths by age-related issues in 2017: >20 million[0] Global deaths due to COVID: ~2.1 million.[1] [0]https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/causes-of-death-in-70-year-olds https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/causes-of-death-in-70-yea... [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:COVID-19_pandemic_data https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:COVID-19_pandemic_dat...
- Out_of_Characte 6y agoCovid isn't deadly enough by a longshot. 100% of the people on this planet will die, if the entire planet got infected only 0.28% would die of covid. of the 99.72% that is not going to die of covid, 16% are going to get heart disease as cause of death.
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]