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To: briskit who wrote (707890)	3/22/2020 9:17:18 AM
From: skinowski	1 Recommendation Recommended By briskit Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793970

(This reply is to steve h too) — I suppose there may be situations when a person may be positive for both CoViD and Flu, and it may be hard to determine which one was the killer. But I doubt that such overlaps would account for the very high CoViD fatality in Italy. Must be something else - large older population... often, perhaps, large multigenerational households make it impossible to protect the old from exposure, etc. CoViD in about 20% of cases (I think this comes from a Chinese study) causes damage to the heart muscle - and in about the same percent of cases, liver damage. If the person has a raging viral illness - and no previous history of heart or liver disease - obviously, the main suspect is the virus. To assign a death to CoViD, they would need evidence - a positive test, typical clinical and/or imaging studies, etc. Cant do it purely on epidemiological grounds - like, the presence of the virus in the hospital and in the community. Docs who went to Med schools will, in this respect, think similarly all over the world.