I still think we are mixing folks dying from covid with folks dying with covid
overall hospitalizations from covid remains low
additionally because folks are getting covid more then once the number of new cases is becoming meaningless
The thing that irked me about this thing is that years in, there’s been very little good messaging about the whole mechanics of cause of death and that whole process.
In most cases, if illness gets you, it’s a combo of things. Like, my grandma died with heart failure. She died of a massive confluence of health issues just causing system-wide failures, but that happens when your old. She also lived with heart failure long enough that the heart failure was old enough to vote and join the army (I can’t recall if it got old enough to drink).
That’s not to say some people aren’t being listed when they does with COVID. But it’s also probably not as drastic as is sometimes described by dedicated skeptics. I imagine it’s somewhere in between.
Still, folks haven’t messaged what most death certificates with illness look like. As I understand, a lot, when it comes to illness, they often include a cocktail of things. But there’s been poor discussion of that, for whatever reason. (Plus it’s mostly back of mind anyway these days, thankfully)
