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Re:Estimation of total mortality due to COVID-19 by pbreit on Friday May 07, 2021 @04:23PM (#27080458)
Excess deaths could easily be attributed to non-covid factors like Alzheimer’s.

Suggesting the US had 900k covid deaths is ridiculous. Only 1 of the 6 considered factors lists covid as a direct cause.

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Re:Estimation of total mortality due to COVID-19 by joshuamorton on Friday May 07, 2021 @04:49PM (#27080719)
> Excess deaths could easily be attributed to non-covid factors like Alzheimer’s.

Why would there suddenly be an 100% YoY increase in the number of Alzheimers deaths?

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Re:Estimation of total mortality due to COVID-19 by pbreit on Friday May 07, 2021 @05:48PM (#27081240)
Hospitals and doctors were basically not handling any non-covid patients.
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Re:Estimation of total mortality due to COVID-19 by joshuamorton on Friday May 07, 2021 @06:07PM (#27081398)
Alzeimer's currently doesn't have any effective treatments, so I'd repeat the question: how would the fatality rate from Alzheimer's double year over year?
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Re:Estimation of total mortality due to COVID-19 by pbreit on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @05:37PM (#27123841)
Alzheimers patients are among the worst off in a restricted healthcare scenario.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-pandemic-led-to-sur...

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Re:Estimation of total mortality due to COVID-19 by craftinator on Friday May 07, 2021 @04:59PM (#27080806)
Because we like to ignore facts that counter our worldviews.
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