Dr. Fauci gives grim projection

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Over 100 million Americans have hypertension. About the same have diabetes or pre-diabetes. About 25 million with cancer. The virus itself causes pneumonia for people who are at risk.

So... yeah, those who die will have something else... the problem is that almost all of us have something else, and many of us have more than 1.

 

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Over 100 million Americans have hypertension. About the same have diabetes or pre-diabetes. About 25 million with cancer. The virus itself causes pneumonia for people who are at risk.

So... yeah, those who die will have something else... the problem is that almost all of us have something else, and many of us have more than 1.

Not sure where you’re getting your numbers but only 30 million have diabetes. Cancer isn’t even one of the comorbidities for COVID. It’s not “almost all of us”....and keep ignoring the average of 2.6. The vast majority of casualties of this disease are the most physically compromised.

 

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Not sure where you’re getting your numbers but only 30 million have diabetes. Cancer isn’t even one of the comorbidities for COVID. It’s not “almost all of us”....and keep ignoring the average of 2.6. The vast majority of casualties of this disease are the most physically compromised.

Correct. People who have hypertension, lung disease, are obese, or diabetes have worse outcomes than healthy people... Just like any other disease or virus.

The 2.6 number is inclusive of comorbidity and causes.

If you are obese (70 million US adults) and have hypertension (100 million US adults) and you die because your heart of lungs stop. That is a minimum of 3 comorbidities/causes.

Some of the reporting on this made it appear that these people would be dying anyway, but that is not true. If not for Covid, the far majority would likely still be alive.

 

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Correct. People who have hypertension, lung disease, are obese, or diabetes have worse outcomes than healthy people... Just like any other disease or virus.

The 2.6 number is inclusive of comorbidity and causes.

If you are obese (70 million US adults) and have hypertension (100 million US adults) and you die because your heart of lungs stop. That is a minimum of 3 comorbidities/causes.

Some of the reporting on this made it appear that these people would be dying anyway, but that is not true. If not for Covid, the far majority would likely still be alive.

Conflating numbers. Last time I checked, there were less than 900 fatalities under the age of 35 (and likely most had comorbitities) which is roughly 150 million. Extremely low risk...much more dangerous to walk around the south side of Chicago. Start there.

This data should be a wake up call. If you want to prevent contracting a virus like COVID, get your own house in order.

 

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Conflating numbers. Last time I checked, there were less than 900 fatalities under the age of 35 (and likely most had comorbitities) which is roughly 150 million. Extremely low risk...much more dangerous to walk around the south side of Chicago. Start there.

This data should be a wake up call. If you want to prevent contracting a virus like COVID, get your own house in order.

Contracting, no. Having a negative response? Absolutely. Just like anything else that might kill you.Those who are more sick, don't do as well.

Just like the flu, heart disease, lung disease etc...

The excess deaths now are because of Covid. It's just disingenuous to try and blame other factors. We don't do it when people die of the flu. We don't do it when people die of heart disease... etc.

 

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Contracting, no. Having a negative response? Absolutely. Just like anything else that might kill you.Those who are more sick, don't do as well.

Just like the flu, heart disease, lung disease etc...

The excess deaths now are because of Covid. It's just disingenuous to try and blame other factors. We don't do it when people die of the flu. We don't do it when people die of heart disease... etc.

We don’t do it but we should. We have a consumption based healthcare system. We consume almost 40% of prescription drugs in the world. An unhealthier population in general than other industrialized nations. The point is to be responsible and control your destiny as much as you can.

 

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We don’t do it but we should. We have a consumption based healthcare system. We consume almost 40% of prescription drugs in the world. An unhealthier population in general than other industrialized nations. The point is to be responsible and control your destiny as much as you can.

in america you are quite literally being fed your destiny and its very hard to escape. it should not get a pass. its one of the massive draw backs of capitalism where people care more about the dollar than they do people.