A NEW report released by the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) in the USA has revealed that in just 6% of the American Covid-19-related deaths, the patient died from Covid alone.
To put it into figures, 9 683 Americans have died from Covid-19 alone, while the remaining 94% had underlying comorbidity conditions.
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The report, which was published on 30 August, states that, of the 94% who died with comorbidities, each patient had an average of 2.6 underlying conditions.
Conditions contributing to deaths where Covid-19 was listed on the death certificate include respiratory diseases (influenza and pneumonia, chronic lower respiratory diseases, adult respiratory distress syndrome and respiratory arrest), circulatory diseases (hypertension, ischemic heart disease, cardiac arrhythmia and other diseases of the circulatory system), sepsis, diabetes, malignant neoplasms (cancerous tumour), obesity, Alzheimers disease and renal failure.
The CDC said their data uses provisional death counts to ‘deliver the most complete and accurate picture of lives lost to Covid-19’.
Its numbers are based on death certificates which the organisation said provide the most reliable source of data.
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