I have a question that’s been troubling me that I’m sure some of our FR experts can answer.
Of the 9,201 who died of “COVID alone,” how many were longtime alcoholics or serious drug addicts?
Or is substance abuse classified as a “comorbidity”?
Again, just wondering. In my town, as I’m sure in a lot of other towns, there are people very far gone on meth who really don’t look as if they could withstand a tough virus on top of it.
Well we know at least one of them died from a motorcycle wreck, and I would bet a bunch more died from on immediate cause, since those wouldn’t count as a co-morbidity.
It can be counted.
There are medical data codes to classify various kinds of substance abuse on death certificates, either as comorbidities or as the Underlying Cause of Death.
My guess is that thousands of fatal ODs have been classified as COVID deaths, but we will not know until we get convenient and free public access to the Death Certificates that the CDC counts.