…CDC Now Says 94% of COVID Deaths Had an Underlying Condition
In comments released at the time, CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield said risk “is a continuum.”
Based on what we’ve learned, we now understand that as you get older, your risk for severe disease, hospitalization, and death increases. We also updated the list of underlying health conditions that can put you at higher risk for severe disease, hospitalization, and death, based on the latest review of scientific evidence to date.
But the bottom line is that the CDC has finally come clean with the actual stats in terms of who is dying and why.
Overall, of the 161,392 deaths covered by the report, 42 percent (68,004) of those who died also had the flu or pneumonia while 34 percent (54,803) had an underlying condition [such as diabetes, heart-related conditions including cardiac arrest, ischemic heart disease (aka hardening of the arteries), cardiac arrhythmia and heart disease leading to] respiratory failure.
I’m not sure how much clearer things could be with regard to who gets seriously sick or dies from coronavirus than this mainstream message from the CDC not less.