Many who die have co-morbidities, often several. If someone who has 4 chronic progressive illnesses has a massive brain hemorrhage, sepsis from a kidney infection, a fatal heart attack, those are what we list first- as required- as the cause of death. There is no motive for treating MD's to over-represent COVID as cause of death. You may…
Many who die have co-morbidities, often several. If someone who has 4 chronic progressive illnesses has a massive brain hemorrhage, sepsis from a kidney infection, a fatal heart attack, those are what we list first- as required- as the cause of death. There is no motive for treating MD's to over-represent COVID as cause of death. You may as well rely on a counterfactual proposition- "If this patient didn't have COPD, ESRD, chronic CHF, diabetes and was much younger than 85, they wouldn't have died when they contracted COVID and went into severe respiratory failure".
Many who die have co-morbidities, often several. If someone who has 4 chronic progressive illnesses has a massive brain hemorrhage, sepsis from a kidney infection, a fatal heart attack, those are what we list first- as required- as the cause of death. There is no motive for treating MD's to over-represent COVID as cause of death. You may as well rely on a counterfactual proposition- "If this patient didn't have COPD, ESRD, chronic CHF, diabetes and was much younger than 85, they wouldn't have died when they contracted COVID and went into severe respiratory failure".