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You are making an assumption that all (or even just the majority) of excess deaths are because of this. Moreover, we know that there are examples of the opposi
by timr 6y ago
You are making an assumption that all (or even just the majority) of excess deaths are because of this.
Moreover, we know that there are examples of the opposite: deaths where Covid was on the certificate as a contributing factor, but not the primary cause. These aren't hard to find.
An 85 year-old with congestive heart failure and late-stage cancer and Covid reflects the modal situation here. It isn't some theoretical event -- it's incredibly common.
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- pixl97 6y agoRight, and those happen at a pretty regular rate every year. If we suddenly have 50k+ more congestive heart failure cases, or 50k less, we can tell that in the statistics.
- timr 6y agoWell, sure. It will be good to get the actual data, and then we'll know. Right now, what we have is aggregate death counts (which we know are high), and people speculating that they're elevated because of Covid (or in this case, making models based on speculation).