Re:The leading cause of death in the US on Apr 6 was Covid-19
by blackhaz on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @07:51AM
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Not a medical professional as well, but I can imagine a picture of a patient dying from coronavirus - say, due to the lung failure - should be quite different from the one dying from the heart disease. Shouldn't it?
Re:The leading cause of death in the US on Apr 6 was Covid-19
by bregma on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @08:05AM
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Lung failure causes a drop of oxygen in the blood, which leads to multiple organ failure. Direct cause of death is often kidney shutdown.
Heart failure causes a drop of oxygen in the blood, which leads to multiple organ failure. Direct cause of death is often kidney shutdown.
Re:The leading cause of death in the US on Apr 6 was Covid-19
by Insanity on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @08:01AM
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But what if the weakened immune system because of Covid impacted the severity of the heart disease? Covid would still be responsible in that case, no?
People have a tendency to look for 'one' cause for an outcome. Sometimes there's just multiple causes I think.
I think it's impossible (with the current state of technology) to determine the actual cause in patients with comorbidities. The patients died _with_ coronavirus in these statistics rather than _from_ coronavirus.
Anyway, it's hard to argue with those people. But if you look at the average deaths a country has per month, and see the increase because of Covid, you should be able to infer something is wrong with just a bit of common sense.