Dying “with” or dying “of”
Responding to this article:
Screenshot (since articles seem to change over time these days):
“Anyone who died while Covid-infected is included in the Ministry of Health’s number of deceased. That can include those who have not passed away because of Covid-19.”
My Response:
While covid can be a contributing factor when there are comorbidities, it sounds like there are deaths being called covid deaths when covid had nothing to do with the death.
So what is the actual number of deaths due to Covid? There are still complexities with recording these deaths and how much Covid contributes when there are comorbidities, but it seems that less than 10 are likely due to Covid.
33 total deaths (from the screenshot above), subtract 22 from the highlighted material in the screenshot below, subtract the 1 who was shot and recorded as a Covid death, subtract the several sudden deaths from positive tested people in isolation that people are reading between the lines as suicides.
Another Screenshot:
As a percentage of those who have had a positive covid test, that makes an infection-fatality rate of 10 (max) divided by 4983 (considering only those who have recovered from covid so far according to worldometer – screenshot below) then multiplied by 100 to give a percentage is 0.2 percent. That is the highest possible value as we don’t know how many people have actually been infected with the virus. Apparently many delta-infected people are asymptomatic (hence the ease of spread of this variant).
There is still the problem of overwhelming hospitals if there is a sudden influx due to covid. The goal should then be to flatten the curve (which was the original plan if you remember). And now we have great early treatment options that are safe and effective (I’m talking ivermectin in particular, but there are other treatments – sadly blocked by the government…)
