Benjamin Singer
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The Joe Rogan Intervention
An analogy that I've used when I've been trying to talk about this phenomenon is trauma.
Revisionist History
The Joe Rogan Intervention
So motor vehicle trauma is that occurs as a primary event. It happens many, many times a day. And in severe trauma, you have hemorrhage. You have blood loss that can become life-threatening. Patients will go to the operating room to try to prevent the hemorrhage from causing death. But in some cases, patients, unfortunately, if the trauma is severe enough, do die from hemorrhage.
Revisionist History
The Joe Rogan Intervention
But you wouldn't say that there is a problem with hemorrhage just befalling people, right? It ultimately was the car crash. It was the trauma that was the initial cause.
Revisionist History
The Joe Rogan Intervention
Yeah, that's a key point. These are not bacterial pneumonias that would have occurred on their own. They aren't. They are occurring only because of the heightened susceptibility of the host having had the viral pneumonia to begin with.