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Re:Problems with Japan's Covid-19 reports by mdpopescu on Monday March 30, 2020 @01:59PM (#22730426)
Maybe the Chinese actually counted the people dying of the flu, instead of every death where the deceased also had the virus.
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Re:Problems with Japan's Covid-19 reports by dboreham on Monday March 30, 2020 @02:02PM (#22730458)
It seems that if you have the virus in your body (test positive), and you die, then with a high probability the virus caused your death (since it only stays in the body for ~10 days).
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Re:Problems with Japan's Covid-19 reports by malandrew on Monday March 30, 2020 @02:20PM (#22730651)
Yes, but if you have comorbidities, it's easy for people to claim the cormorbidity is the cause of death.
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