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Originally Posted by cheap
Comorbidities
CDC has released this latest data:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/c...#Comorbidities
Table 3 shows the types of health conditions and contributing causes mentioned in conjunction with deaths involving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned.
For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death. The number of deaths with each condition or cause is shown for all deaths and by age groups. For data on comorbidities...
To date, less that 10,000 USA people have died exclusively of C19.
I wonder what the numbers mught be for Australia?
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Things like this and the tragic death of the young boy due to the storm in Melbourne the other night made me ponder some hard, logical numbers. Covid has hit those in their twilight so much harder than other tragic death causes such as the road toll.
****warning, this is purely a numbers thing - definitely not trying to say any life if more important than another!
I was interested in the "years lost" effect in Australia. Of the age group data I found (was @540 deaths) i applied some rudimentary (not from data, just an educated guess) "years of life left" to each break. (<10 80, 10 to 20 70, then 60,50,40,30,20,12,6 and finally 3 for the 90-100 age group.)
This gave 4081 years lost.
the median age for Australia is 37, (50 years left in that bracket), so I divide 4081 years by 50 years.
so by the years lost, 81 "median age" lives lost.