Without them, COVID-19 would be still more fatal than common cold yes, but in absolute terms it wouldn't be such a problem as it has been. So why is everyone saying he is not correct? He's just stating that the mortality is heavily associated with those factors
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Replying to @davidbautistaqf @GidMK and
Yes if we lived in an entirely different world then we would indeed live in a different world. Read up on the legal definition of "but for" causation. You'll then understand why he's incorrect.
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Replying to @bobbywarnsiii @davidbautistaqf and
If we fixed global inequality and all of our problems it would indeed make infectious disease less of an issue, but it's a truly ridiculous thing to blame COVID-19 deaths on
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Replying to @GidMK @bobbywarnsiii and
I guess the point that I'm understanding is that we need to pay careful attention to those points in order to prevent lots of deaths that are going to be caused in next pandemics if those viruses happen to thrive on chronic inflammation and inequity
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Replying to @davidbautistaqf @GidMK and
From just the slides shared here, I would say that he could have rather written "what exacerbated the death toll" not "what really caused..."
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Replying to @davidbautistaqf @Marco_Piani and
Come on guys. Why do you think he stretched it to "what really caused"?? Obviously for political/grift reasons.
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Replying to @bobbywarnsiii @Marco_Piani and
So the controversy is that he's saying "what really caused" instead of "social and immunological determinants explaining the majority of covid-19 deaths"?
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Replying to @davidbautistaqf @bobbywarnsiii and
They don't explain ~any~ COVID deaths, that's the point. They CONTRIBUTED to SOME of the deaths
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Replying to @GidMK @bobbywarnsiii and
Those social and immunological determinant explain/contribute to the majority of deaths.
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There is a vast gulf between explaining deaths and contributing to them, conflating the terms is wrong
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