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by DrNuke 2277 days ago
Dead are all tested... when dead. If coronavirus accelerates the passing away of chronically ill or severely ill people, would you count that as a covid death? Italy does, that’s the point. And it is not influenza, please stop that, the particular pneumonia associated with covid is viral instead of bacterial, and there is no antibiotic for that, only drugs (experimental, allowed for compassionate use) mitigating the quick and deadly inflammation effects.
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I see your point.

Italy always fares poorly year on year on flu seasons

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197121...

> We estimated excess deaths of 7,027, 20,259, 15,801 and 24,981 attributable to influenza epidemics in the 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16

> And it is not influenza, please stop that,

I never asserted that it was, if you read the comment you will see that I was asserting that they usually fare poorly in influenza seasonal outbreaks. For the same reasons it's faring poorly with cv19