Originally Posted by
clear4approach
I'm not sure about pneumonia deaths/year.
I feel Iike if you're walking around healthy, and get COVID (which then results in pneumonia and you die) that's a COVID death. It seems like people are saying "see they're calling that a COVID death when it was pneumonia, so the COVID deaths are inflated"
Same with having any other pre-existing condition or comorbidity, you're living life, not 100% healthy, but you manage. Then you get COVID, it aggravates your condition or comorbidity and you die. Seems like BUT FOR COVID, you'd be alive, then that should be a COVID death, no?
Again
The point was, pneumonia deaths are being counted as COVID deaths regardless of the reason for having pneumonia. Not all pneumonia is COVID related. Otherwise, it would be a totally new phenomenon.