COVID-19 co-morbid deaths update

Here are some of the CDC’s updated COVID-19 co-morbid deaths as of January 6th:

Ischemic heart disease: 3,082

”Intentional/unintentional injury, poisoning, and other adverse events”: 3,718

Malignant neoplasms: 3,722

Sepsis: 5,267

Renal failure: 6,790

Alzheimer’s: 7,728

Diabetes: 7,739

Dementia: 20,437

And there are many, many more. 94% of COVID victims were co-morbid. From the CDC website:

For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.9 additional conditions or causes per death.”

Author: S. Smith