The logic that since '6% of people have COVID-19 listed as the sole cause, the other 94% of deaths could be reasonably argued to have died of something else' is flawed, write Justin Lessler and Lucy D’Agostino McGowan for usatodayopinion.
A 70-year-old grandfather of three arrives at the hospital in respiratory distress. He has struggled with heart disease for years and, at his doctor’s recommendation, is taking a watch-and-wait approach to his early stage prostate cancer.
Because it is so hard to tell, and defining the cause of death is so complicated, any responsible doctor will list all three of these on his death certificate, with COVID-19 as the primary cause.around a Centers for Disease Control table The argument stems from the fact that the vast majority of the more than 185,000 people who have died of COVID-19 in the U.S. are like the man described above, and have multiple causes listed on their death certificate.
This logic is flawed. If we really believed this, we would have to argue that our 70-year-old friend was destined to die when he did even if he did not have COVID-19. In other words, we would be arguing the pneumonia or heart disease would have killed him, even if the COVID-19 had not come along.
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