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(46,086 posts)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.
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.
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(17,622 posts)TomVilmer
(1,832 posts)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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