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How many 'Covid' deaths are really caused by Covid-19? (Original Post) Quixote1818 Nov 2020 OP
This is a bogus question. no_hypocrisy Nov 2020 #1
I agree Rebl2 Nov 2020 #3
well covid fills the lungs up and you drown..should be easy to identify... samnsara Nov 2020 #2
It is no longer "died with". People die directly of Covid-19. TomVilmer Nov 2020 #4

no_hypocrisy

(46,086 posts)
1. This is a bogus question.
Sun Nov 1, 2020, 04:52 PM
Nov 2020

I could suffer a stroke and die after or while having COVID and the death certificate could say that my cause of death was cerebral hemorrhage. But -- my cardiovascular system, pre-COVID could have been absolutely normal with no build-up of plaque in my arteries, regular sinus rhythm of my heart (IOW, no atrial fibrillation). But I contract COVID, perhaps even asymptomatically. And the virus causes damage to my blood vessels, permanent damage. And with that damage my blood begins to thicken and a multitude of clots appear throughout my body. The doctors can't get at all of them; it's like Whack-A-Mole. And one clot breaks off, lodges in my neck or in my brain, and voila! One stroke with disability and/or death. So technically, I died of a stroke but for the fact that COVID made the manifestation and opportunity for a stroke to occur. But realistically and medically, I died of COVID.

Rebl2

(13,496 posts)
3. I agree
Sun Nov 1, 2020, 06:32 PM
Nov 2020

I think many people would have lived longer with their pre-existing conditions had it not been for Covid. I think their deaths should be listed on death certificates as Covid as primary and whatever the other conditions as secondary.

TomVilmer

(1,832 posts)
4. It is no longer "died with". People die directly of Covid-19.
Sun Nov 1, 2020, 06:48 PM
Nov 2020

The Danish Ministry of Health just made a review of death certificates, which indicate that over 95 percent of the 697 people (out of 6.000.000 citizens) registered dead with Covid-19 in Denmark, died of symptoms that coincide with Covid-19.




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