If it were not for the coronavirus, those diabetes, heart, etc. patients would still be alive.
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That is not necessarily true. People have been dying of these and other chronic conditions for a long time and will continue to do so. some/many/lots of the death were not attributed originally to CV-19 but may have been an insignificant contributing factor.
I understand what you are saying. But if the coronavirus killed someone on a Tuesday, someone who would have been dead by Friday, I still would consider that to be a coronavirus death.
Consider this. A man is very, very ill because of diabetes. Someone breaks into his house, and beats him up. A healthy man would have easily survived that beating. But the diabetic does not. Who killed that man, diabetes or the burglar? I say it’s the burglar.
The age-adjusted prevalence of obesity among U.S. adults was 42.4% in 2017–2018. The fatality rate from obesity is zero. That’s about 140 million people in the US. Among the other co-morbidities, there are 250 million people with either asthma, diabetes, hypertension or heart disease. The annual fatality rates for these are all .5% or below. Any fat dude who died of lung failure last week and is positive for Covid DIED OF COVID, give it up flubros, your are just being pathetic.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db360.htm
Diabetes https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/diabetes.htm
Lung Disease use stats for asthma
Cancer https://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/common.html
Immunodeficiency https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4820073/
Heart Disease https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190131084238.htm
Hypertension https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db289.htm
Asthma https://www.lung.org/research/trends-in-lung-disease/estimated-prevalence-and-incidence-of-lung-dis-(1)/methodology
Kidney Disease https://www.cdc.gov/kidneydisease/publications-resources/2019-national-facts.html
Liver Disease https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/liver-disease.htm
Pop with disease
Diabetes 34,200,000
Lung Disease use asthma
Cancer 2,800,000
Immunodeficiency 165,000
Heart Disease 121,500,000
Hypertension 95,700,000
Asthma 22,500,000
Kidney Disease 37,000,000
Liver Disease 4,500,000
222,665,000
Annual deaths from disease
Diabetes 83,000
Lung Disease
Cancer 606,000
Immunodeficiency 0
Heart Disease 647,000
Hypertension 472,000
Asthma 338
Kidney Disease 47,000
Liver Disease 82,500
Annual Death Rate
Diabetes 0.24%
Lung Disease see asthma
Cancer 21.64%
Immunodeficiency
Heart Disease 0.53%
Hypertension 0.49%
Asthma 0.00%
Kidney Disease 0.13%
Liver Disease 1.83%