I don't think it's new information or changes anything. With almost any disease, it's a complex that kills, whether factors were present before or in this case covid induced. So it's not surprising that 94% are listed that way.
I believe that co-morbidities refers to having multiple illnesses at the same time and does not mean that one caused or induced the other(s) . Pneumonia is not a result of Covid 19. Patients can and do get flus, Covid, and pneumonia at the same time. Any of these can be fatal independently but having several illnesses simultaneously will likely make the patient very very ill and in such a weakened condition, more at risk of death etc.
The numbers of deaths for patients without comorbidities is very low certainly. It may well be that the number of patients without other health issues (age, obesity, diabetes, renal, etc) is only 6% of covid infection cases. This has been the objection in a nutshell by most of the public all along. Corona virus is essentially like the flu otherwise in a mortality rate by itself with otherwise healthy people.
The big fear in the first couple months (March 15 to May 15) was the rate of spread (infectious) and the numbers of people who might need hospitalization to overwhelm the facilities. Thus the flatten the curve theory.
The problem was the medical community lead by Fauci failed to immediately act to protect the most vulnerable (nursing homes and senior citizens, very sick or overweight, diabetics, kidney). Then some governors deliberately put covid positives IN nursing homes full of very sickly patients in close proximity so infections exploded and literally tens of thousands died with comorbidities but not before being hospitalized. Therefore, healthcare workers in both hospitals and the homes were unduly exposed, the patients in dire need of extensive healthcare services for non-covid problems either exposed or sent home or refused treatment, and the problems dominoed all over.
The entire corona virus outbreak was worsened, if not intended, by China’s deception early on and throughout.
The post game analysis may never get to the bottom of it all but there will be much to be learned. The Fauci response (deer in headlights initially followed by near panic shutdown of private sector business and haphazard and arbitrary restrictions to many activities but ignoring others, and multiple instances of advisory changes) has not helped instill trust generally. Masks dont work to they may help to they are our only hope! Vaccines take years to
maybe by late ‘20 to early ‘21. Death estimates of millions to 250,000 and now, well oops, its actually only 15,000 as most of these previously reported in the most dreadful and ominous and depressing ways imaginable, were due to other causes. In other words, Covid 19 is NOT the end of days afterall. Nevermind, guess maybe we maybe over reacted!
Sorry about the ten trillion dollar disaster that killed 40 million jobs and destroyed millions of businesses and set the entire world back a decade economically and nearly into a great depression. The damage is on going and there remains great risk of depression still. Big Ten sports is just a tip of the iceberg as airlines and transportation and hospitality and dining and entertainment sectors are in dire straits. Most of damage is yet to be recognized (public schools and local govt budgets are just now being considered).
The on- going partial shutdowns are reported as if they are non-existent but dam few enterprises can function with 25 or 50% capacity caps and are still failing financially. Econ bleeding is slowed but not stopped.
Finally, more delays and confusion about treatments, experimental or not, vaccines or not, do not help. The unwillingness to allow treatments with broad spectrum anecdotal success when no other options are available only casts doubt about public confidence and trust and motives of medical leadership.
