By Web Team
INDIANAPOLIS — There were several developments in the
coronavirus pandemic that you may have missed overnight.
Here’s a look:
Contributing
conditions. The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention released new data last week that depicts how many Americans who
have died from COVID-19 also had contributing conditions.
According to the report, only 6% of deaths have
COVID-19 as the only cause mentioned, revealing that 94% of patients who died
from coronavirus also had other “health conditions and contributing causes.”
The report reads
in part:
Table 3 shows the types of health conditions
and contributing causes mentioned in conjunction with deaths involving
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). 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 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death.
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- The Centers for Disease Control released information showing how many people
who died from COVID-19 had underlying medical conditions that attributed to
their death.
The CDC said:
Table 3 shows the types of health conditions and
contributing causes mentioned in conjunction with deaths involving coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19). 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 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death.
The following are the top underlying medical conditions
linked with COVID-19 deaths.
- Influenza
and pneumonia
- Respiratory
failure
- Hypertensive
disease
- Diabetes
- Vascular
and unspecified dementia
- Cardiac
Arrest
- Heart
failure
- Renal
failure
- Intentional
and unintentional injury, poisoning and other adverse events
- Other
medical conditions
According to the CDC, 9683 died in the United States with
only having COVID-19 listed on their death certificate.
