Former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson has this little tidbit for us. The CDC guidance allows coding for COVID-related deaths based on assumptions or if it contributed to the death. Confirmation from lab tests is not required.
We have shut down our entire economy, are destroying peoples’ lives, and are living under authoritarian rule for assumptions? Even if it contributes to death it could be absurd to label it a coronavirus death. What if the person is 95 years of age and even a cold would have killed the person? It’s COVID-related?
1/ As you sit home watching #COVID death counts spiral, please know the official @CDCgov guidance for coding COVID-related deaths is as follows: any death where the disease “caused or is *assumed* to have caused or *contributed to* death.” Confirmed lab tests are not required… pic.twitter.com/H4D6mcti3R
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) April 3, 2020
Serious illnesses like COPD, cancer, and heart disease are considered secondary.
2/ And, btw, other possibly relevant factors, like, oh, COPD, are considered secondary. The rules “are expected to result in COVID-19 being the underlying cause more often than not.” https://t.co/o003zuLQHt
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) April 3, 2020
If a lab test is inconclusive, that’s okay too for WHO.
NCHS is not planning to implement. pic.twitter.com/11fvevbQ7Z
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) April 5, 2020
We are not saying this illness isn’t serious. It is serious and people either get no symptoms, mild cases, or they are on vents. It’s crazy. However, we aren’t getting the accurate numbers of recovered, we don’t know how many are asymptomatic and presymptomatic, and we don’t have a reliable barometer of how many actually died. We shut down our economy and we don’t have accurate figures.
Democrats are using it to turn us into a socialist hellhole by putting in the framework, and both parties are spending wildly, but we don’t even have any accurate numbers.
PNEUMONIA
Oddly, flu and pneumonia deaths are going down. Why? Is it because they are listed as COVID-19? Caveat: It could be that vaccinations are bringing these numbers down. We will have to wait and see.
Look at the drop in pneumonia deaths for this season. Reclassified as COVID-19 maybe? pic.twitter.com/aOG4bLK3mr
— Mike Stephenson (@engware) April 4, 2020
INFLUENZA
Nationwide during week 13, 5.4% of patient visits reported through ILINet were due to ILI [Influenza-like Illness Surveillance Network]. This percentage is above the national baseline of 2.4% but represents the first week of a decline after three weeks of increase beginning in early March. The percent of visits for ILI decreased in children and adults but increased slightly for those 65 years of age and older. Nationally, laboratory confirmed influenza activity as reported by clinical laboratories continues to decrease which, along with changes in healthcare seeking behavior and the impact of social distancing, is likely driving the decrease in ILI activity.
Updated with the chart of pneumonia and influenza deaths.
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