[exDemMom]

That count can only be understood correctly if the concept of "comorbidities" is included. We don't count flu and Covid deaths the same way at all.

Certain comorbidities make a Covid-19 patient more likely to die.

The concept that a heart disease patient, a diabetic, an obese person, etc., died "with" Covid-19 and not "from" Covid-19 is one of those harmful misinformations that emerged early on, when the real message there was that if you have a comorbidity, you need to be extra careful not to catch Covid-19.

I used an online calculator to calculate my risk of dying from Covid-19. The first calculator gave my risk as 0.4%. The link to that calculator does not work, but here is another online Covid-19 risk calculator. This one showed my risk of dying as 0.7%. Either way, my risk of dying if I catch Covid-19 is higher than the risk if I catch influenza. Which I won't, because I get the flu shot and I'm always careful to avoid catching disease.

[Interesting Times]

I didn’t say the chances of dying of the flu and Covid are the same. I do suggest that the policy of counting, for example, someone who died of a heart attack after testing positive as a “Covid death” makes comparisons between the official flu and Covid death totals largely meaningless.

[Elsie]

My risk of dying is 100%

It might be covid that does it.