Dying "From Covid." Or Maybe Not

Looks like getting hypertension, leukemia, prostate or colon cancer, or heart disease is no longer fatal!!

That's one way to read this article.

...Of Milwaukee County’s 383 COVID-19 deaths (as of July 31^st), 372 of those individuals had other underlying health conditions.

Hypertension was the most common comorbidity, with 199 cases. There were 160 cases of diabetes and 106 cases of cardiovascular disease. There were also patients with leukemia, colon cancer, and prostate cancer. The average victim of COVID-19 in Milwaukee County had 2.5 comorbidities. Some had 5 or 6 other serious conditions....

Well, maybe it's a judgment call.  Or maybe not:

...Even if they weren’t tested for COVID-19, “If they had symptoms of COVID that’s what they [the doctors] put down.”....

Certainly, then, COVID-19 was the single largest problem, right?

Wrong, credulity-breath!!

...Two of the victims had six comorbities. This is how their records appear in the examiner’s records:

“CauseA: Complications of novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection; CauseOther: Chronic congestive heart failure, diabetes mellitus, Parkinson’s disease, hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, chronic renal failure,” read one of the records.

“CauseA: Complications of novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection; CauseOther: Alzheimer’s disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic renal failure, hypertension, atherosclerotic coronary and peripheral vascular disease,” read the other record....

It is true that--unlike in Florida--no one here has died of COVID-19 with secondary cause as "smashing motorcycle into a tree at high speed"--or like in another jurisdiction, no one here has died of COVID-19 with secondary as "several rounds of 9mm penetrating the body."

Neither of those has happened here.

Yet.