FYI, "Most people who die of COVID-19, seasonal flu, or a bacterial infection technically die of sepsis – their organs shut down under the weight of the body's own runaway inflammatory response.. In-hospital sepsis mortality [in the US] rose 37.5% among patients 65 and older, and 44% among adults 18–64, between 2019 and 2021. The steepest relative jump in sepsis mortality was among younger adults.. An estimated 36,000 sepsis deaths occurred in 2020 alone, beyond what pre-pandemic trends would have predicted.. Post-sepsis syndrome – lasting cognitive and physical effects seen in up to half of survivors – extends the true cost of pandemic-driven sepsis well beyond the initial hospitalisation, in much the same way long COVID has.. sepsis was formally coded in only about 9% of COVID deaths, while clinical and autopsy studies find sepsis present in 52–93% of those same deaths. The official numbers understate the true toll – by the data's own admission." Long COVID is similar to long sepsis. 'The hidden pandemic within the pandemic: How COVID-19 impacted sepsis – and what comes next' pharmaphorum.com/rd/hidden-p…