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There have been clear excess deaths (mortality rate increases) from all causes combined during waves. Most evaluations of excess deaths that I've seen conclude
by ridaj 5y ago
There have been clear excess deaths (mortality rate increases) from all causes combined during waves. Most evaluations of excess deaths that I've seen conclude that Covid deaths are undercounted not over counted.
- switch007 5y agoThey didn’t cite excess deaths however. Hence my question Again, you say “covid deaths”. That is not precise.
- rootusrootus 5y agoWe count flu deaths as 'with flu' instead of 'from flu', so counting covid this way keeps it as close to apples-to-apples as possible.
- ridaj 5y agoDo we say "death from car accidents" or "death with car accident"? Do we discount terminal cancer patients, diabetics and asthmatics from car accident stats because they had a preexisting condition? In the case of covid as with car accidents, it's a distinction without a difference. Yes people are more predisposed to die from covid because of them, but analyses of all-causes excess mortality do not support the hypothesis that there is a large difference between deaths with covid and deaths from covid. EDIT: except when there isn't enough testing, which underreported deaths with covid towards the beginning of the pandemic.
- JoshTko 5y agoCitations are on wiki page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:COVID-19_pandemic_data https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:COVID-19_pandemic_dat... Does precision matter in this case?