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   > To decide whether it is correct or not, one has to ask the doctor:   
   > would that person have died then and there of their heart or kidney   
   > condition had they not contracted COVID-19? If the answer is no,   
   > then we may blame COVID-19, as the the major cause of death. Since   
   > the new virus is more deadly than flu, it is only meet to give it   
   > more weight over other factors in the attribution of death.   
      
   Agreed.  Some places are doing it that way, while other countries (and US   
   states) may be counting anyone who tests COVID positive, even if their   
   death was caused by something completely unrelated.  Fall off a ladder, hit   
   your head, die of trauma, test positive, dead of Wuhan Coronavirus.   
      
   I believe it is correct to count that person as a positive test, but I   
   don't believe it is correct to count their death in the statistics.  I am   
   not certain anything that extreme is being counted but we are getting the   
   impression from some US states that they would count situations like that.   
      
   > Any death is due to the failure of one vital organ or another. Both   
   > seasonal flu and COVID-19 cause death by agrravating a pre-existing   
   > weakness in the organism. If one follows this logic of yours to the   
   > end, one shall conclude that no one has every died by flu or by   
   > COVID-19, which is, obviosly, wrong. Everybody dies becuase their   
   > brain stops working!   
      
   True.  At least early on, everyone dying of the virus was actually dying of   
   a complication from it... pneumonia.   
      
   Mike   
      
      
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