In August when the death numbers were 180000 or so the cdc said that 9000 of those were directly from Covid and the rest occurred in covid patients with an average of 2.6 co-morbidities or “2 to 3” in other words.
We’ve been seeing hospitalizations where I work where the patients came in with covid like syndromes but they never test positive but they have all the characteristics.
Still the doctors think it might be covid because many of the patients’ families recently had some positive tests.
These patients however have some bad co-morbidities so the thinking is that the virus might have been in their systems but was fought off but their co-morbidities were aggravated(usually lung issues, cardiac, diabetes, or damage related to past heavy drug use). They get bacterial pneumonias and further sepsis with kidney damage and then they just go on to spiral out of existence.
Great info. I think that is what will be seen this winter. As normal cold and flu preoccupy the immune system previously kept-at-bay conditions like Covid will take advantage of lowered immune response.