Off-Topic: Look at the rate of testing
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MartiniMan
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Look at the rate of testing
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5/10/2021 5:28:35 PM
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If I were you I'd definitely put the numbers aside because they are killing your point. But therein lies the problem. If someone has a heart problem and develops pneumonia and they die, was it a heart attack or pneumonia? Many of the people that died from a co-morbidity that had the virus may have just as well died from the ordinary flu (the numbers of which were down dramatically in 2020 I might add) or pneumonia or other disease. That's why you have to look at excess deaths and when the CDC did they came up with a conservative 375,000, not counting the number of deaths from the ordinary flu which magically, mysteriously almost disappeared last year.
So no, simply saying someone died from a heart attack and having the virus does not mean they died from the virus nor does it mean that a healthy person has the same level of risk as an unhealthy one. One has to wonder how many excess deaths there were with previous outbreaks, like in 1968. I doubt they have the data but it would be interesting to see.
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