CDC: 6% of Total [covid] Deaths are from Coronavirus Only

Sharon Black https://uncoverdc.com/2020/08/31/cdc-releases-new-data

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated their website last week and disclosed out of the 161,392 deaths in the CDC database, just six percent (6%), about 9,700 deaths, were attributed to the coronavirus alone.

According to the CDC, the other 94 percent had an average of 2.6 additional conditions or causes of deaths, such as heart disease, diabetes, and sepsis.

The following is the top underlying medical conditions linked to coronavirus deaths according to CDC:

• Influenza and pneumonia

• Respiratory failure

• Hypertensive disease

• Diabetes

• Vascular and unspecified dementia

• Cardiac Arrest

• Heart failure

• Renal failure

• Intentional and unintentional injury, poisoning and other adverse events

• Other medical conditions

Dr. David B Samadi MD, urologic oncology expert, and robotic surgeon commented on the CDC news via Twitter. “As a men’s health expert, many men have been affected by COVID-19. The CDC today revealed that only 6% of COVID deaths were in patients without existing comorbidities. 94% of the deaths were in cases with pre-existing conditions. This affects the entire public.”

“For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned,” the CDC stated in its report, under the heading ‘Comoborbities’. “For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death.”

The CDC report also explains that “they are based on death certificates, which are the most reliable source of data and contain information not available anywhere else, including comorbid conditions, race and ethnicity, and place of death.” The CDC defines comorbidity as having “more than one disease or condition … present in the same person at the same time. Conditions described as comorbidities are often chronic or long-term conditions. Other names to describe comorbid conditions are coexisting or co-occurring conditions and sometimes also ‘multimorbidity’ or ‘multiple chronic conditions’.”

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