Pneumonia & complications of pneumonia are and always have been one of the biggest killers of the elderly.
If cases were breaking out in Europe back in December almost a month before it became big news in China then nobody would have been tested. If elderly had died of pneumonia it would have said that on the death certificate, or complications from flu or flu like symptoms.
The daily figures we see now are of people who have died 'with' coronavirus and not nesscerily directly from.
Here's thing of the 100's of thousands of elderly that die in hospital from pneumonia or complications arising from it each year they don't do studies of exactly killed them. They give a basic screen for certain known pathogens and that's that.. common cold viruses can kill elderly.
One study on certain human Coronaviruses basically said the same.. of those in the study that had them around 8% of the cases admitted to ICU died. But it basically said that very little research is done to find the true extent they play in death..
Originally Posted by: picturesareme