6/n The first piece of the puzzle is diabetes. In this scenario, let's say that having diabetes doubles your risk of death if you're hit by a car For every 1,000 people without diabetes hit by cars, 5 die. With diabetes, that goes up to 10
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17/n We can see this quite clearly in the US excess mortality figures There are about 200,000 people who WOULD BE ALIVE TODAY if not for COVID-19pic.twitter.com/VFo5yjMw6s
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18/n Moreover, if you look at the CDC's reports, >95% of COVID-19 certified deaths had COVID-19 as the UNDERLYING (remember, main) cause of death In other words, COVID-19 was behind MOST IF NOT ALL of these deathspic.twitter.com/IJL4YGKO7G
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19/n There you have it - a simple explanation As I said, MOST COVID-19 DEATHS ARE CAUSED BY COVID-19. Fin
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Careful: conflating “percentages” and “percentage points” here, which is misleading by a couple of orders of magnitude.
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