- January 13th, 2022, 11:55 am
#638657
I know that stat has been making the rounds, but it’s a misrepresentation of what she said. She said 75% of deaths among those who are vaccinated had 4 or more comorbidities.
Here’s the study:
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7101a4.htm
But, again, its about proximate cause. If someone has heart disease, gets COVID and dies, they aren’t killed by the heart disease. Even if they have stage 4 cancer with 6 months to live, if they get COVID and die 6 months before they would have if they had not had it, they still died of COVID.
@JK37, we do have a pretty good idea of how many would have died anyway based on excess death statistics. Based on projections, we are actually underestimating how many people have died of COVID.
Here’s the data on that: https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid
Here’s the study:
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7101a4.htm
But, again, its about proximate cause. If someone has heart disease, gets COVID and dies, they aren’t killed by the heart disease. Even if they have stage 4 cancer with 6 months to live, if they get COVID and die 6 months before they would have if they had not had it, they still died of COVID.
@JK37, we do have a pretty good idea of how many would have died anyway based on excess death statistics. Based on projections, we are actually underestimating how many people have died of COVID.
Here’s the data on that: https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid