Coronavirus: The old man’s friend
by Ted Noel MD April 10, 2020 
In 1892, the great medical pioneer William Osler referred to pneumonia as “the natural end of the old man.†In common use, this has become “pneumonia is the old man’s friend.†That is, pneumonia is the final step in ending the suffering that is common near the end of one’s life. Curiously, it is a pneumonia that seems to be the most common terminal event in COVID 19 infection.
There’s one item we’ve heard a lot about in the Wuhan Flu pandemic: co-morbidities. In Obamacare-speak, these are “pre-existing conditions.†Now you should be able to tell the rest of us that these are bad medical conditions you had before you got the virus.
North of 80% of all Wuhan Flu deaths have serious co-morbidities. The Italian data indicates that the average dying patient had 2.7 of them. Of course, you can’t have 0.7 of a morbid condition, so some had more and some less. We also know that the average age at death was 82. Hmmm.
According to World Health Rankings, average life expectancy in Italy is 82.8. In other words, those 82 year old victims already had one foot on the banana peel before the virus arrived. They only had months left before their subscription ran out anyway. In Obamacare-speak, they didn’t have many “Quality Adjusted Life-Years†(QALYs) left.
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https://noqreport.com/2020/04/10/coronavirus-the-old-mans-friend/
