Other guy wrote:
Harambe wrote:
[Something like 90% of death certificates have multiple causes of death on them -- COVID or not.
Source?
The only thing I could find out it at 2/3rds..far less than the 94% with Covid.
And since 94% of Covid deaths cite multiple causes, then to count them all as Covid deaths is a great overstatement.
By doing so, you are ignoring all the other causes.
Or, if you count the other causes, you then count one death as two deaths or more.
1) I got death data for 2018 from here:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data_access/vitalstatsonline.htmI parsed data by number of conditions and got ~78-80% had multiple conditions, depending on how I counted -- not quite 90 -- my bad. Still the large majority have multiple causes.
2) No, you are revealing your lack of understanding. Mulitple cause data can include other causes induced by covid.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#ComorbiditiesMany of the comorbidities listed are respiratory conditions like "respiratory failure" that are caused by COVID itself. They do not have to be independent. Multiple cause data shouldn't be interpreted like that.
92-95% of COVID death ceritificates list COVID as the underlying cause. How do you argue against that? Doctors are wildly incompetent are mis-assign death all the time? Or, at WORST COVID deaths are 5% over counted (I don't agree with this at all) and you still have 200k+ deaths to downplay?
There's no endgame here.