CDC Data of Comorbidities with Covid-19
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/health...092020-508.pdf
Page 1: "For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned."
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"NOTE: Number of conditions reported in this table are tabulated from deaths received and coded as of the date of analysis and do not represent all deaths that
occurred in that period. [..] Deaths involving more than one condition in conjunction with COVID-19 (e.g., deaths involving
COVID-19, diabetes and respiratory arrest) were counted in both other conditions. To avoid counting the same death multiple times, the numbers for different
conditions should not be summed. Deaths with confirmed or presumed COVID-19, coded to ICD–10 code U07.1"
On death certificates it will say something like "Respiratory failure caused by pneumonia caused by Covid-19". When the tabulators come across a certificate like that they will add it to both totals of respiratory failure and pneumonia. There is a lot of people in those buckets of all different ages in this list. You might not walk into it with pre-existing comorbidities, it is reasonable that some may develop them in the course of the disease. Even just random chance would say that it would be non-zero. Now could it also be reasonable, that some people aren't as healthy as they think they are?
And you may be perfectly healthy, but many of us have something that is also listed as a comorbidity. Obesity is based on the dumb BMI number. Probably a lot of people in that category would be considered healthy to most of us. We don't care about abs. The BMI score doesn't care about strength. The hater comments show how people see whether someone else is fat or not. Doctors are no better than the rest of us there. Over 250 lbs, obese for sure.
This is how I think of this data. Happy to hear your thoughts.