Deaths due to non-COVID-19 causes are higher than COVID-19 deaths particularly in developing countries but still the concern authorities are totally focused towards mitigating COVID-19. We can't ignore this situation where people are dying at home due to closures of non-COVID related services at most of the hospitals during this pandemic. Do you agree ?
I think the problem is now greater in developing and non-developing countries. Both should be taken care of, and it is noticeable that deaths from coronavirus are more.
the problem is not death comparison rather rate of spread which is dangereous
The main problem is the increase number of patients and which mutations does the virus can have in the future.
Please see https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid
Mortality in non covid is much much higher than covid deaths.
And unfortunately the non covid patients are forgotten and struggling to get treatment and care.
Another unfortunate fact is that many of these diseases like MI, etc are preventable and treatable
Devendra, this is an important discussion centre. For example, in 2017 alone, the WHO recorded 435,000 deaths globally because of malaria. Out of these, 403,000 malaria type deaths were recorded in Africa. COVID-19 is one of the latest pandemics to draw the level of medical, socio-economic and political attention partly due to its trans-continental reach.
Yes, I agree with you Dr Shafiq Ur Rehman Luay A. Al-Helaly actually due to poor recording system in most of the developing, the deaths at home are not recorded adequately. Also, the example provided by John Mendy is very relevant here, even the available mortality data related to non-COVID has been ignored by most of the nations. I think we need more contextual health plans at this moment to tackle both COVID and non-COVID morbidity simultaneously otherwise the week health system in low-income countries may have to face greater burden in future. Dr. Ahmed Ismail Ebada Pranav Ish
It may be true for developed country as well. However, due to COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown approach preventing transmission lead to more preventable deaths. Health care providers (public and private) are rarely response the cases of fever and other disease having fever, leads to complication and deaths. Unhuman activities
I agree with Devendra Raj Singh.
A small letter on TB in COVID specially for countries like mine
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341549922_COVID-19_Avoiding_a_second_tragedy_in_a_tuberculosis_burdened_country
The biggest problem is to discriminate against diseases and patients around the globe. Developing countries are good puppets. It is always declared by developed countries, which disease is dangerous and important. Concurrently, COVID-19 is declared as the most severe disease around the world by UNO and its controllers, that's why all other diseases are ignored particularly in developing countries, and thousands of people are losing their lives, while Covid-19 is prioritized.
I agree with Sher Zaman Khan most of the time it happens in resource poor countries just because they are not able to analyse the own situation due to lack of adequate evidence and skilled humans resources. Also, Kshitij Karki comments is true for many developed nations where the condition are similar to developing countries but the reality has been concealed.
Thank you Dr Marcos.
Dr. Devendra, the health care facilities were already overburdened in our country in pre-COVID times. COVID-19 has just thrown it out of gear. The Non-COVID mortality which is not assessed/realized/reported now must be multiple times higher than COVID mortality. It is, as usual, so late that authorities realize only sick COVID to be admitted and rest can be managed at home. This will help non-COVID to get at least a chance to get treated. The highly limited health care staff strength is, however, a bigger issue to tackle.
I think for Nepal, suicide cases, maternal / perinatal deaths and perhaps the other deaths due to NCDs are more than COVID-19 deaths, because a lot of regular healthcare services are altered or reduced due to focus on COVID response!
Thanks!
Deaths from other cases is much more higher than COVID-19 deaths not only in developing countries but also common scenario in developed countries. Lots of others infectious diseases as well as NCDs are there to cause deaths.
A lot of data from different countries confirms the above thesis. Most of the deaths (even about 80-90% and more) are caused not only by the Covid-19 disease, but also by complications caused by other diseases and chronic, coexisting diseases that have seriously decreased the functioning of the body's immune system, caused cardiovascular failure and / or Unfortunately, the data are not precise and it is not precisely investigated in all countries to what extent the death of a particular person was caused only by a factor of Covid-19 disease after subtracting other factors, the effects of comorbidities and to what extent, to what extent death was caused by these other illnesses and diseases. Data from many countries in this respect vary in terms of analytical methodology and are therefore not fully comparable. It also happens more than once that the media, especially social media portals, receive unconfirmed and not fully verified data instead of data that are the result of precisely implemented analytics in accordance with the recommendations of current scientific knowledge and ongoing research by immunologists and virologists. Sometimes it is not just a matter of a specific information policy.
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Dariusz Prokopowicz
Absolutely yes. In many countries today, people are dying in high number compared to the Covid-19 fatality rate as alot of those countries have been ravaged with issues like terrorism, banditary, political uprising and poor health infrastructures.
COVID-19 is a virus when it enters a human being, the fear and the minor diseases like lung infection, low immunity, diabetes, etc., combine with it causing deaths more often. Otherwise recovery is not an issue with the available medication.
"'No Way out', In China Coronavirus takes toll on other patients": https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/03/world/asia/china-coronavirus-cancer.html?_ga=2.135227572.482860930.1596067804-793839521.1595720896
"... it was likely that preventable deaths from strokes, heart attacks and other acute diseases could outnumber the lives saved from treating coronavirus patients. "
