This seems to be a very commonly misunderstood point, and while I explain in my blog post I thought I'd also do a tweetorial to explain: WHY MOST COVID-19 DEATHS ARE CAUSED BY COVID-19 1/nhttps://twitter.com/Adam_Creighton/status/1300732710663544833 …
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2/n To explain, I'm going to be using an analogy Let's look at the case of the 50 y/o man with diabetes who is hit by a carpic.twitter.com/hdIBj9Kgy3
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3/n So, our 50 y/o man - let's call him Greg - is walking down the street Greg has a life expectancy of ~25 years. That means that, on average, we expect him to live until the ripe old age of 75
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4/n This is, of course, terrible - without diabetes, he'd live another ~6 years on average Still, he's not on deaths' door by any means Until he tries to cross the road, and is hit by a car
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5/n Greg is rushed to hospital, where despite the best efforts of the surgical team he has a cardiac arrest and dies on the table Now, we have to answer the question: what killed Greg?
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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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7/n So, first time - what killed Greg?
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Replying to @GidMK
There’s a real gap in people’s knowledge on causative factors and I wonder how much comes down to language. Often when a celebrity dies of “cardiac arrest” people go “ohhh they had a heart attack” rather than understanding that their heart stopped due to ___
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Replying to @cherryblack
Ooooo, is it fill in the blank? Lemme guess... Cocaine!
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Dammit knew I should've guessed the Jags
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