The way that comorbidities are being used as an out for COVID deaths is truly astonishing Depending on how you define the term, most people above 50 have at least one comorbidity!https://twitter.com/ASlavitt/status/1300098832605286401 …
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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
@ASlavitt is being reasonable here at all. While this may be weaponized by charlatans, the CDC is actually just reporting basic stuff here2 replies 2 retweets 15 likesShow this thread -
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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