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Covid: It's That Bad (www.okdoomer.io)

submitted 9 months ago by ugjka to c/science

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[–] solrize 10 points 9 months ago

Covid messes up your immune system so even if you don't get long covid, you get other opportunistic infections, plus nice stuff like heart attacks. Of course if you die of such a heart attack, it's not counted as a covid death. So the damage of covid is way underestimated.