[quote]styi wrote:
The "but for" criterion of tort law applies here: But for COVID-19, most of the people with those comorbidities would be alive.
And THAT is "totally true."
No. That is nonsense. These comorbidities are not minor issues.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#Comorbidities
Look at what they are:
Influenza and pneumonia
Chronic lower respiratory diseases
Adult respiratory distress syndrome
Respiratory failure
Respiratory arrest
Other diseases of the respiratory system J
Circulatory diseases - - - - - - - - -
Hypertensive diseases
Ischemic heart disease
Cardiac arrest
Cardiac arrhythmia
Heart failure I50
Cerebrovascular diseases
Other diseases of the circulatory system
Sepsis
Malignant neoplasms
Diabetes
Obesity
Alzheimer disease
Vascular and unspecified dementia
Renal failure
Intentional and unintentional injury, poisoning and other adverse events
Number of Americans who have died without at least one of these other issues is @ 6% of 220k = @ 13,200.
Number of those under the age of 80? @ 5,000 to 6,000.