WASHINGTON D.C. — A new report from the CDC shows that 94 percent of all COVID-19 deaths occurred with patients who had an underlying medical condition.
According to Johns Hopkins University, approximately 182,885 people have died from coronavirus in the United States.
This establishes that only 6 percent of people have died from COVID-19 alone, or approximately 10,973 people. To clarify, this means that 94 percent of coronavirus fatalities had at least one additional factor contributing to result in death.
The accompanying factors listed by the CDC include:
- Respiratory diseases
- Influenza and pneumonia
- Respiratory failure
- Hypertensive disease
- Diabetes
- Circulatory diseases
- Vascular and unspecified dementia
- Cardiac arrest
- Heart failure
- Renal failure
- Obesity
- Alzheimer disease
- Intentional and unintentional injury, poisoning and other adverse events
- Other medical conditions
Therefore, this data clarifies that most people who perish from COVID-19 suffer from a pre-existing medical condition. Individuals who have no pre-existing medical condition and contract COVID-19 have a 96 percent average chance of survival. This is without taking into account age factors.
This data does not suggest 96 percent of coronavirus deaths are non-COVID-19 related; it simply shows approximately 171,911 of those infected with COVID-19 and perished had underlying health issues contibuting to their mortality.
