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Originally Posted by T3rminator
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51979654
"The death figures being reported daily are hospital cases where a person dies with the coronavirus infection in their body - because it is a notifiable disease cases have to be reported.But what the figures do not tell us is to what extent the virus is causing the death.
It could be the major cause, a contributory factor or simply present when they are dying of something else."
"For example, an 18-year-old in Coventry tested positive for coronavirus the day before he died and was reported as its youngest victim at the time.
But the hospital subsequently released a statement saying his death had been due to a separate "significant" health condition and not connected to the virus.
There are, however, other cases, including health workers, where people have died with no known health conditions."
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Chicken or the egg ?
AIDS virus works in the same way. You don’t die of the AIDS virus per se, the death is due to the complications it brings with exisiting or pre existing immune challenges. So if an AIDS victim dies of pneumonia, how is that recorded ?