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Originally Posted by Chitownchiefsfan
If only it was that black an white. If you have lung cancer but ultimately die of pneumonia as a result of it you don't just count the death towards pneumonia.
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Yeah, I've discovered over my career that most types of data compilation are more complicated and subjectively defined than they would seem at first glance.
For example, I had a very elderly relative who died in 2021. (I never met him - he was my father's cousin or some such thing.) Anyway, the guy was 90+ years old and he got Covid and was apparently feeling very poorly. He got up in the night and either passed out or fell, and ultimately died as a result of the fall. Covid caused the fall, but the fall actually killed him. So where does he count in the statistics?