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Old 20-01-2022, 12:53   #1443
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Re: Coronavirus

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY View Post
Excess deaths are also caused by people not getting diagnosed and/or treated in time as a result of prioritising Covid patients.
That's exactly why excess deaths is the best way to measure it. Those people would not have died it if were not for Covid. So even if they didn't have Covid, it caused their death.

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY View Post
It shouldn’t be a problem working out who has actually been admitted and/or died of coronavirus
It is a big problem, because there is a huge grey area. For example, if you have a chronic illness such as COPD, catch Covid, get hospitalised and die, have you died of Covid, or just with it? There is no clear answer.
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