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Many of those 'additional causes" are things caused by COVID-19. e.g. per that table, out of 560K deaths coded as COVID-19, 257K were also coded as "influenza
by allturtles 5y ago
Many of those 'additional causes" are things caused by COVID-19.
e.g. per that table, out of 560K deaths coded as COVID-19, 257K were also coded as "influenza or pneumonia". That's because Covid causes pneumonia.
- mywittyname 5y agoAdding to this, pneumonia is merely inflammation of the (aveoli in the) lungs and it is almost always caused by some external factor, such as infection or illness.