Even mild Covid-19 course leaves traces on organs (German)
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Is it that they don't? That they do and it isn't reported? That it isn't studied because the upfront consequences of these more common viruses are so much less dramatic?
My fear is that, if this kind of reporting is just because SARS‑CoV‑2 infections are front of mind for the popular culture, these kinds of reports will be used to suggest there's more "special bad" with Covid when in fact there might not be. Bad policy tends to grasp onto any rationale it can find, and facts without context can be the worst for this.
> reports will be used to suggest there's more "special bad" with Covid
You are arguing in bad faith. Starting with asking innocent questions in appearance only to build your argument that there is no problem.
There are more and more reports that there is a "special bad" with Covid.
Denying it won't help.
> In der Lungenfunktionstestung konnte bei den Teilnehmenden ein um etwa drei Prozent reduziertes Lungenvolumen (...) Die Herzuntersuchungen ergaben eine durchschnittliche Abnahme der Pumpkraft um ein bis zwei Prozent sowie eine 41-prozentige Erhöhung eines Markerproteins im Blut, welches Auskunft über die Belastung des Herzens gibt.
I don't know if a difference of 2% between two groups of a 443 person sample really is that statistically significant. I'm not convinced it is, but I'm very open to other views on this.
Better to stamp it out, but unfortunately I believe that time has passed early in 2021 once deer were identified as a reservoir.
The above findings are currently prominently displayed on tagesschau.de [1], whereas you can't even find the current number of suspected deaths after vaccinations (currently 1919 deaths after vaccination in Germany [2]) using the search utility [3]. Please note that this number is indeed newsworthy as this is the first update in months regarding deaths after vaccinations.
[1]: https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/uke-studie-corona-101.html
[2]: https://www.pei.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/newsroom/dossiers...
[3]: https://www.tagesschau.de/suche2.html?query=1919&sort_by=dat...
No.
German reporting is based on the local health agencies reporting deaths either "caused primarily by COVID" or "with COVID as a contributing factor" (last I saw in a ratio of about 80:20, some sampling with autopsies suggests that's not totally off but the samples aren't all that large), with almost always the aggregate number being reported because the distinction can be very difficult to make. (EDIT: although official overall cause-of-death statistics still go by primary reported cause, and thus exclude the latter part)
Coronavirus disease deaths are identified using the ICD–10 code U07.1. Deaths are coded to U07.1 when coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19 are reported as a cause that contributed to death on the death certificate.
As well it should be, because the base rate for pneumonia is well known and is taken into account when reporting these stats.
I linked you an example in another comment.
On the off-chance that it is the second, and that you are really serious:
'Death while having COVID' does not equate 'death by COVID', it merely is something that is registered. A death certificate lists conditions around the time of death, and being COVID positive may (or may not, not everybody is tested, after all) result in a mention on the death certificate.
If COVID is a part of the chain that led to the person dying then you are likely to see something mentioned in the area that is related to the cause of death, likely an infection with COVID will be listed there as well as for instance pneumonia, the direct cause of death.
With the vaccines and their side effects, something similar happens: there is the possibility of a link, and when such a link is confirmed then that will cause all kinds of feedback loops to engage, which if the evidence points to the cure being worse than the disease may even lead to the vaccine being taken off the market, or, alternatively, to be restricted in its distribution based on whatever demographics turned up to have an adverse risk profile.
I hope that answers your question, and that you understand now that there is really only one standard here.
Back to the topic at hand, you maybe right about what the death certificate says, but I am more concerned with what counts as a covid death in statistics. The CDC is pretty clear about that - any death where covid contributed is a covid death. Getting hit by a truck won’t count, but pneumonia certainly will. It seems that any cause of death that could come from covid is counted as covid death as long as the deceased was infected.
Coronavirus disease deaths are identified using the ICD–10 code U07.1. Deaths are coded to U07.1 when coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19 are reported as a cause that contributed to death on the death certificate.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/tech_notes.htm
Likewise I would expect death from vaccine to be, statistically speaking, any death by a vaccine-related cause within two weeks of being vaccinated. Perhaps my expectations are wrong, but they are certainly not unreasonable.
Your expectations are very unreasonable. With a vaccine drive hitting 100's of millions of people in a very short time and with on average thousands of people normally dying of other causes, the assumption should be that some people that are vaccinated will die of natural causes within a reasonably short time.
After all, those causes don't suddenly go away within two weeks of being vaccinated. Some percentage of those people would have died anyway within those two weeks. The vaccine drive was spread out quite a bit but even so you can rest assured that any deaths that are even remotely suspicious (say, not a car accident, or someone falling to their death) are going to be looked at for patterns that lie outside the statistical expectations. Nobody would benefit from an unsafe vaccine, witness the care around AZ and Janssen when there was suspicion that these vaccines may cause disproportionate side effects.
So only excess deaths from COVID and excess deaths from vaccinations (which is a vanishingly small number utterly dwarfed by the COVID related deaths) should be counted, not the normal ones.
Base rates for a number of causes of death to give you an idea:
> In 1.919 Verdachtsfallmeldungen wurde über einen tödlichen Ausgang in unterschiedlichem zeitlichem Abstand zur Impfung (0 Tage bis 289 Tage) berichtet.
Also note that not every death after vaccination is reported, you need to fill a document with your symptoms [1]. So these are indeed very much suspected cases of adverse side effects / deaths.
[1]: https://nebenwirkungen.bund.de/nw/DE/home/home_node.html
Suspected severe reactions (and death certainly is that!) are not primarily self-reported, since there is a legal requirement for doctors etc to report them.
Why?