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Originally Posted by Northerner52
FL Leading Causes of Death, 2017
1. Heart Disease 46,440
2. Cancer 45,131
*** 2020 Covid deaths to Oct 27 2020*** 16,505
3. Accidents 13,059
4. Chronic Lower Respiratory Diseases 12,619
5 Stroke 12,602
6 Alzheimer’s Disease 6,980
7 Diabetes 6,172
8 Suicide 3,227
9 Kidney Disease 3,172
10 Chronic Liver Disease/Cirrhosis 3,098
Stats of the State of Florida
By zip code. The 3 Villages zip codes have 850 cases. 130,000 people .006 or 6 out of 1,000 infection rate. No death count on the site for the 3 zips
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There was/is controversy that FL (and other states) count any death in which the patient is suspected of having Covid as a Covid death, whether or not the patient’s blood was tested for the virus or other co-morbidities are present. If that’s true, I wonder if these numbers reflect that practice.
Edited to include this CDC link which sheds a little light on reporting cause of death, but to me is still rather vague. Apparently there is an assumption that a co-morbidity would not have resulted in death absent Covid, if I read it correctly.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/vsrg/vsrg03-508.pdf