I think the overwhelmingly vast majority of covid cases die of viral pneumonia. Some have other complications like renal failure or lung blood clots. But I think the dataset is referring to comorbidities like diabetes and heart disease.
I take it as 6% of covid deaths were otherwise healthy and had no pre-existing conditions.
Looking at the table, the second most common comortality is pneumonia at around 60,000.
Doesn’t covid develop into pneumonia? Logically the doctor is going to list both as the cause of death.
Not trying to discount this is overblown, but I don’t think saying 9,000 is the number is accurate. At a minimum maybe it’s 60k
I think the overwhelmingly vast majority of covid cases die of viral pneumonia. Some have other complications like renal failure or lung blood clots. But I think the dataset is referring to comorbidities like diabetes and heart disease.
I take it as 6% of covid deaths were otherwise healthy and had no pre-existing conditions.