I mean, I'm a 30-something man with a slightly above normal BMI who does 5-8 hours of strenuous exercise a week and lifts regularly But I have several comorbidities! Despite them, my life expectancy from today is somewhere around 85 years total
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If you define high blood pressure, overweight/obesity, asthma, arthritis, and mental health diagnoses as comorbidities, you end up with half the population having at least one Does that mean if they get COVID-19 it didn't cause their death? Obviously not
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Ok, I have actually looked at the CDC website, and I don't think
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The CDC has created a table of COVID-19 deaths by ICD-10 codes Only 6% of all COVID-19 deaths had ONLY COVID-19 listed, which is where the 6% figure comes frompic.twitter.com/IPeFLjSJ17
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But if you look at the actual table itself, it becomes immediately clear that they are not saying that COVID-19 is not the cause of death, just that these people had ANOTHER ICD-10 CODE
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(To be fair, this language is misleading, because these are not "comorbidities" in the traditional sense, but that's not precisely the same issue)
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So, for example, here are the respiratory diseases Obviously, many of these codes can be assigned BECAUSE OF COVID-19 (i.e. ARDS, respiratory failure etc)pic.twitter.com/yK9w5RFZB5
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Similarly, this bucket of ICD-10 codes includes everything from neonatal jaundice (P59.9) to chest pain, unspecified (R07.4), so again these may not really reflect "comorbidities" in the usual sensepic.twitter.com/VtYp6sLOK6
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So it's not "Only 6% of people with COVID-19 had no comorbidities!" it's "Only 6% of people had COVID-19 as their only code" It's actually quite surprising that there were any at all imo, most people get many codes for billing purposes (more $$$$)
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Same in the UK. So many over 50 have hypertension, type 2 DM, asthma, obesity etc. None of these things mean imminent death!
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exactly. Losing 30 years of life is hardly trivial. “Old and sick”? My foot.
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