To: bruwin who wrote (1216944 ) 4/4/2020 8:14:29 PM From: Winfastorlose 4 RecommendationsRecommended By
Read Replies (1) | Respond to It is even worse than that. The way they have been counting, no post mortem test was necessary. They need only suspect one might have had Covid19 to count them as a Covid19 death because they had no test to easily use that could isolate the strain of corona virus. It doesn’t help that data when the guidelines for determining who’s actually died of the coronavirus are profoundly vague. For instance, what happens when an elderly person with numerous underlying conditions comes into the hospital and dies? What happens when someone suffering from late-stage cancer or liver failure dies in the hospital? If that person was in the final stages of life and no testing is done and no autopsy conducted, what are we to assume? If no testing is done and a patient’s symptoms are close enough to the seasonal flu, will that person’s death automatically be attributed to COVID-19 ? And how much of a difference would that make in the numbers, if any? The Western Journal has emailed the CDC for comment, but did not hear back in time for publication of this article. There’s no doubt that this guidance will inflate the numbers, the only question is how drastically. In places like New York City, where medical professionals are painfully overstretched, anyone who dies with an infection that’s vaguely COVID-19-like could potentially have COVID-19 listed as their cause of death. Consider, for instance, that the CDC is estimating there were between 24,000 and 63,000 deaths in the United States from influenza between October and March. In NYC, does that mean some of those deaths got lumped under COVID-19? Will this keep on happening? westernjournal.com
