There is way too much misunderstanding about comorbidities. There are 2 broad classifications of them in CDC figures: those that are caused by wuflu, and those that aren't aka "underlying medical issues."
One big one is age. Someone 85 dies and the typical reaction here is "oh they were going to kick the bucket in 6 months anyway." BS! You don't know if they may have lived beyond 100. Doctors treating them may have had some idea, but they aren't telling us anything useful about these cases.
The next biggie is diabetes, usually accompanied by morbid obesity. Again, if they died we don't know how long they may have lived, or if they truly would have died in 2 weeks with no infection of any type. (That'd be a very extreme case, probably not a high number)
So the fact that over half of these deaths had "underlying medical issues" doesn't mitigate anything. It means that these two comorbidities make people weak against ... probably all sorts of infections. Wuflu is especially dangerous to those with "oxidative stress." I don't understand that completely, but both diabetes and being overweight are in that category.
There is way too much misunderstanding about comorbidities. There are 2 broad classifications of them in CDC figures: those that are caused by wuflu, and those that aren't aka "underlying medical issues."
One big one is age. Someone 85 dies and the typical reaction here is "oh they were going to kick the bucket in 6 months anyway." BS! You don't know if they may have lived beyond 100. Doctors treating them may have had some idea, but they aren't telling us anything useful about these cases.
The next biggie is diabetes, usually accompanied by morbid obesity. Again, if they died we don't know how long they may have lived, or if they truly would have died in 2 weeks with no infection of any type. (That'd be a very extreme case, probably not a high number)
So the fact that over half of these deaths had "underlying medical issues" doesn't mitigate anything. It means that these two comorbidities make people weak against ... probably all sorts of infections. Wuflu is especially dangerous to those with "oxidative stress." I don't understand that completely, but both diabetes and being overweight are in that category.