Yes some wouldn’t have died if it weren’t for CV…but numbers could be 2/3rds of them were dead men walking. And they no doubt “got it” in nursing home of hospital.
This is a pretty idiotic thread we are going down.
50k Americans dies of covid. Some of them- a small percentage would have died in this time frame regardless. But that amount is baked into our national death rate. We are way above our national death rate.
Maybe prognosis is the wrong word.
I’ll use my 94 year old Mom in Assisted Living.
Her heart is slowly winding down, but she’s still hanging in there.
If she contracts COVID next week and dies from pneumonia, to me, she died as a result of COVID.
She may have died sometime in the next year, but she otherwise didn’t die on that day from heart disease.
It’s just how I see it.
Yes…I’ve been paying attention and playing the odds.
Like when I went to home depot in Redmond, that zip code/area has total of 30 cases or 133.4 per 100 thous while one on Bothell has 52 or 211.5 per 100 thous. Both are about same driving distance.
We’re a little over 13,000, but I’ve watched WA drop from first to now 16th in total cases. We’re doing pretty good.
I’m looking forward to getting out and about around June.
I see where Inslee is now letting outdoor construction resume. That’s good.
Now that Boeing is back in the factory, I’ll be real interested to see if their measures prevent another outbreak. If so that will be really reassuring.
My zip code area is .115 percent that tested positive with 1 dead. Think about that for moment. All we know he or should could of had heart disease of other problems in which he or he have croaked from.