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   Mike Powell to Anton Shepelev:   
      
   > > 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 the decision intends to provide a simple estimate that   
   cannot err on the lower side, for it is by all means safer to   
   overestimate than to underestimate the death rate.   
      
   > > 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.   
      
   And now they die (or are dying -- which is correct?) from a wider   
   variety of complications.   
      
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