We've discussed it at length, albeit that was relatively early in this pandemic.
So whether you try to call it dying from COVID or dying with COVID, the number of deaths is MUCH higher this year in the middle of a pandemic than previous years.
Thanks for the informed response on a talking point worth revisiting.
The difference between dying
from Covid and
with Covid might be splitting hairs at this point, a Venn diagram with plenty of overlap, so to speak.
I do want to say, with different nations likely differing on how Covid deaths are counted, it's one way to explain why nations with less ambitious medical industries, such as the West African nations, have much lower death counts per capita. Granted there are MANY possible differing factors, but if, say Nigeria, is recording their usual run of deaths from heart disease or lung failure without testing for Covid due to a lack of capability, it makes sense why their death toll numbers are lower per capita.
However, as a contributing factor this has its limit as a defining difference because, at some point, the sudden rise in sicknesses requiring a sharp need for ICU space and ventilators would certainly be noticeable as a Covid surge no matter where in the world this happened. And a number of nations haven't had this severity of Covid waves as experienced across Europe and the Americas.
Covid provides us a lot of new ways to look at our world.
