Posted on 05/12/2020 4:04:08 AM PDT by PBRCat
The medical examiner’s database showed COVID-19 as the primary cause of death for 2,303 people. Of those, 2,112 were shown to have at least one underlying condition as a secondary cause of death. Those conditions, also known as comorbidities, included hypertension, diabetes, obesity and heart disease.
As of May 8, the average age of all COVID-19 deaths in Illinois was 74, almost 50 percent of all Illinois deaths have been tied to long-term care facilities...
This is important because Gov. J.B. Pritzker has refused to release any statewide comorbidity data as part of his official Illinois Department of Health releases.
Understanding who is most at risk – and who is not – is central to understanding of the virus. It’s also central to helping decide when and how to open up our economy and schools. What Cook County’s and other comorbidity data across the country implies is that the risk of death for healthy Illinoisans is far lower than Gov. J.B. Pritzker might lead people to believe based on his protracted lockdown and drawn out reopening plan.
Hypertension affected 1,070 victims, or more than 46 percent of all deaths. Diabetes impacted 973 victims, or 42 percent of the total. Pulmonary disease was part of 397 deaths, or 17 percent. And 215 of those deaths, about 9 percent, were accompanied by obesity or morbid obesity.
Yet others had conditions including cancer and cardiovascular and kidney diseases.
For months, Illinois residents have lived in fear that has been exacerbated by a lack of transparency and open reporting from the state. Antibody testing results are still being held back, which we wrote about in With New FDA Action, Gov. Pritzker and Dr. Ezike Have No Excuse for Further Stonewalling Antibody Testing.
The state should be open and transparent with its COVID-19 statistics.
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Just how sick were those people? What was their expectancy at the time the virus hit?
The data is similar to the data for the fatal Wuhan Virus cases everywhere. Many folks may get infected, but those most in danger of that infection being deadly are not 80-90% of the population. It is the folks who are already not healthy due to long running poor health conditions and/or cancer treatments done not so long ago. Children especially have not been affected much at all and never should have had their schools shut down. That has been a particular disgrace.
Children do not live on a children’s island. They have parents and teachers, who may have preexisting conditions.
Many of the preexisting conditions, such as hypertension or overweight, do not mean a person is sickly or likely to die in the next ten or twenty years.
These preexisting conditions are very common.
“Children do not live on a children’s island. They have parents and teachers, who may have preexisting conditions.”
Which has zero, zip, zilch to do with the data, the record of the rate of infection, illness and fatalities of children regarding the Wuhan Virus. Tests have shown even when infected their viral load is beneath a level making them agents of infecting others; adults or other kids. It is a point there ought to be research on, to determine why that low rate of vulnerability of kids, BUT it is what it is - they are not very vulnerable, even at infecting others.
There are conflicting reports about whether children can spread the virus. A single case study where one child does not spread the virus does not prove they cannot spread it; a single case where one does proves they can, but not how frequently.
30 NYC teachers and 29 aides died of Covid19. One teacher was only 30 years old.
“Many of the preexisting conditions, such as hypertension or overweight, do not mean a person is sickly or likely to die in the next ten or twenty years.......”These preexisting conditions are very common.”
Diabetes in adults - about 9% of the population; I would not call that “very common”.
Diagnosed heart disease in adults - 12%: I would not call that “very common”.
Diagnosed cardiovascular disease in adults - 7% in total, rising in time, through age groups, to about 25% at age 70 and above. While 1 in 4 (25%) may be considered “common”, it discounts that 3 in 4 (75%) is three times MORE common.
Diagnosed chronic respiratory disease in adults - 5.5%: I would not call that “very common”.
Obesity - the official figure is 39%, which would make it “common”. But if 39% is common, so is 51%, making the lack of obesity just as common.
What is more common about all these things is not that they are all common among the whole population, but they are killers, Wuhan Virus or no Wuhan Virus.
1. What we have seen in the marking of deaths as Wuhan Virus, is many have been coded as Wuhan Virus (a) because in addition to other comorbidity factors they had “symptoms like” the Wuhan Virus, though no test was ever done that determined they had the virus, and (b) no matter what comorbidity factor they had besides the Wuhan Virus, nor what state that factor was in at the time, they were coded as a Wuhan Virus death because it was among the comorbidity factors and for no other reason.
2. The issue was and is always what was essential and necessary to do, and clearly what was essential and necessary was sheltering, and encouraging the sheltering of the most vulnerable, not sheltering all the most healthy from the most healthy to whom the chances of a Wuhan Virus being fatal was small.
“30 NYC teachers and 29 aides died of Covid19. One teacher was only 30 years old.”
Does not prove they were infected by a child.
Did they have comorbidity factors?
2000 Deaths? If you watch the Leftist Chicago TV Stations you would think it is over a Million Deaths. Every night the lead story is 1000’s of new cover cases hit Chicago. Everyone is going to die!
There is no news reporting in Chicago. The TV robots are just reading from a script provided by Putzker and Lighthead.
Once again, statistics are useless without a standard.
I would be willing to bet that almost every death has associated morbidities.
People really need to stop buying crap by the wheelbarrow.
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