@Demosthenes @EVoCeO

Here's what I don't know. I've been told that risk factors aren't documented as a cause of death. Is that right? If someone with asthma or hypertension or whatever, died with covid, would asthma or hypertension actually be listed as a cause of death?

I know locally that medical providers are paid higher reimbursement rates of their patients died with covid, and a friend who is a support at an area sheriff has been on the scene of the deaths due to violent crime that get documented as covid deaths. We get more of what we incentivise, which I think leads in this case to bad data that's easy to not trust.

@freemo

@SecondJon
If not for COVID, the vast majority of those who died would not have died.

COVID attaches to ACE-2 receptors in the lungs. Certain diseases increase or are caused by higher than average receptor density. However, it's not the receptors that cause death, but the virus that attaches to it.
@EVoCeO @freemo

@Demosthenes

I understand the assertion, my questions were about the quality and contents of the data.

@EVoCeO @freemo

@Demosthenes
I also wonder if it's still true that nicotine is preventative, and if so, why aren't cigars or pipes being prescribed (due to their significantly lower risk of other health impacts compared to cigarettes).

@EVoCeO @freemo

@SecondJon
If nicotine is preventive why on earth would thry prescribe cigars or pipes.. they would prescribe nicotine inhalers or gum.
@Demosthenes @EVoCeO

@freemo @SecondJon @Demosthenes This is an interesting question. Would nicotine inhalation have a greater impact on the virus since the nicotine would go straight into the alveolus? Or does it matter since it ends up in the blood stream?

@EVoCeO

Not really sure, I doubt we are even all that certain nicotein helps at all to be honest.

@SecondJon @Demosthenes