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Originally Posted by pavulon
Covid is scary so we should stop quoting causes of death lest we scare people. Any other health conditions for that list?
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It's even "scarier" when you don't need any factual evidence for those declarations, let alone lab-confirmed results to list CV as COD on a death cert. Good info is good; bad info and fear-mongering, not so much.
It's not like the guy died in an ICU on a vent after testing positive. In fact, he'd already contracted CV several months prior, had long-since recovered, and was feeling great prior to the onset of whatever eventually took him down.
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Originally Posted by pavulon
There are TONS of real ugly ways to die but I guess we should pretend those situations don't happen either.
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Sort of making my point there. There are all sorts of ways to go, but all other non-Covid morbidities seem to not be getting much attention these days.
The waters are further muddied by the lack of distinction between dying FROM CV and dying WITH CV, and "probable" vs. "confirmed" COD.
So let's maybe not jump the gun with a definitive Covid diagnosis every time someone kicks off unexpectedly. Crazy talk, I know...