Comments by "Helen Trope" (@heliotropezzz333) on "Coronavirus: Most affected countries as death toll passes one million" video.

The figures are also probably understated since some countries count the deaths better than others and are more honest about the death numbers than others.
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How do they determine who dies 'purely' of Covid? If people have underlying conditions Covid can kill you quicker than otherwise. Covid can cause blood clots, and cause strokes as well as damage to organs such as heart, liver, lungs, kidneys. What then is counted as a 'pure' Covid death?
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@aviahveredusa6099 Jumping to conclusions aren't you? Of course I care about those with cancer. I have it myself and had an operation for it only this year (which was delayed for several months because of the virus). I read a lot of non fiction books and I don't watch much TV.
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@slackdee That's not true. For a number of reasons 1) Doctors are professionals and do not write false causes on certificates 2) The excess deaths figures which are calculated from the figures for all deaths, from whatever reason, from the death registers, compared to the average figures from the same sources for previous years, reveal an excess death figure that indicates that Covid deaths are understated rather than overstated. In the UK that ties in with the fact that elderly hospital patients who were untested for Covid were sent out to care homes and spread Covid there causing many deaths, but the people they infected in care homes were also untested for Covid because in the first few months of the pandemic only hospital patients were tested. People dying at home, if their GPs could not, or did not, get them into hospital were also untested for Covid when they died.
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