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Originally Posted by blueash
I don't understand the point you are trying to make by cherry picking a piece of the article you linked. What it actually says it that only 12% of patients only had Covid and no other condition that contributed to death. The other 88% had Covid and some other risk that made Covid more lethal. Which is exactly what everyone has been told all along. Those with heart, lung, cancer, diabetic, immune problems... are more at risk of death.
And more significantly the article points out that being elderly was a major factor. Whereas the average age of Covid hospitalized patients in China was 46, it was age 67 in Italy.
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I would offer that I doubt, but do not know, that the air quality in Wuhan is better than Lombardy.
Now back to the original figures. If 12% of fatalities are in victims with no pre-existing conditions that is very significant. It refutes the argument that if you are healthy you're not at risk. I don't know if smoking and exposure to air pollution would have been listed at contributing factors on death certificates. Seems unlikely.
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I posted in reply to a poster who calculated Italy's death rate due to coronavirus as 9.2% which is way out of whack with rest of world's at 1-2%. As the Italian advisor quoted in article said, the way Italy is coding cause of death may be different. Believe what you like.