Two more deaths by Covid-19 in Madeira

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

Two more patients with Covid-19 died this Monday, in Madeira, aged 61 and 79 years. Both had associated comorbidities and were admitted to the Dr. Nélio Mendonça Hospital.

The Autonomous Region of Madeira accounts to date, a total of 91 deaths associated with Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic.

In this month of November alone, 14 people who were infected with the SARS-Cov-2 virus have died in Madeira, as you can see in the table below.

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5 Responses

    2. We know that most deaths are of the elderly with comorbidities and that the immune systems of people of such health status do not mount as strong of a protective response to the vaccine, and that immunity wanes pretty quickly in such people. So the vulnerable remain vulnerable to the virus…less so than before vaccination, but whether it’s covid or the flu, there are deaths every year of the old, the sick, and those weakened by other health issues. These deaths need to be placed in that context. How many Madeirans died from the flu each year before covid? Surely those deaths never made the news. We must always go back to looking at “all cause mortality” and compare these times to “normal” times.

  2. From a pre-covid article in The Portugal News:

    “Respiratory diseases in Portugal cause around 40 deaths per day, with almost half of the 13,000 deaths per year being caused by pneumonia.”

    So let’s put our current numbers in context. The current 7-day average for covid deaths in Portugal is 9. This is nothing compared to the typical 40 per day from all respiratory diseases.

    Many of these covid deaths would have occurred anyways, in the same people, from other respiratory infections leading to pneumonia.

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