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originally posted by: ChaoticOrder
originally posted by: daskakik
a reply to: ChaoticOrder
Like I said, if it is a contributing factor then shouldn't they form part of the fatality rate?
Yes it's probably a good idea to be recording it as a contributing factor, but we shouldn't be counting people who had serious pre-existing conditions in the death statistics because it's very misleading and causing a lot of fear.
On Tuesday, the city's health department released a revised COVID-19 death count that included those who were not tested but were presumed to have died from the disease.
Three thousand more people died in New York City between March 11 and April 13 than would have been expected during the same time period in an ordinary year, Dr. Oxiris Barbot, the commissioner of the city Health Department, said in an interview. While these so-called excess deaths were not explicitly linked to the virus, they might not have happened had the outbreak not occurred, in part because it overwhelmed the normal health care system.
“This is yet another part of the impact of Covid,” she said, adding that more study was needed. Similar analysis is commonly done after heat waves and was performed in the wake of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.
N.Y.C. Death Toll Soars Past 10,000 in Revised Virus Count
“This is yet another part of the impact of Covid,” she said
Similar analysis is commonly done after heat waves and was performed in the wake of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.
An analysis of vital statistics by The New York Times last December found that 1,052 more people than usual died across the island in the 42 days after the storm. Other news organizations, including Puerto Rico’s Center for Investigative Journalism, CNN, Buzzfeed and Alexis Raúl Santos, a demographer at Penn State, have also challenged the government’s figure, finding evidence for hundreds of excess deaths in the weeks after the hurricane.
Researchers for this latest study visited more than 3,000 residences across the island and interviewed their occupants, who reported that 38 people living in their households had died between Sept. 20, when Hurricane Maria struck, and the end of 2017. That toll, converted into a mortality rate, was extrapolated to the larger population and compared with official statistics from the same period in 2016.
Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Maria Death Toll Could Exceed 4,000, New Study Estimates
And are there potentially cases where someone registered a death as a heart attack because the person hadn’t yet developed symptoms of COVID-19, and truly should have been categorized as a COVID probable. I don’t know that we will ever be able to answer that question fully, but I think it’s something that still needs to be looked into further.
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: daskakik
I have yet to see anyone give a plausible reason for the state of New York adding 3,700 people to their coronavirus death toll today, simply because they think the people might have had coronavirus when they died.
Source: news.yahoo.com...
So 3700 death certificate have to be revised, grieving relatives contacted and told they need to order a new death certificate from the state.. probably at a cost.
originally posted by: Salander
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: daskakik
I have yet to see anyone give a plausible reason for the state of New York adding 3,700 people to their coronavirus death toll today, simply because they think the people might have had coronavirus when they died.
Source: news.yahoo.com...
So 3700 death certificate have to be revised, grieving relatives contacted and told they need to order a new death certificate from the state.. probably at a cost.
It's just paper work. Bureaucrats get paid to fill out forms. The bigger the numbers, the bigger next year's budget.
From Michigan: www.mlive.com...
Because they had a family member in the hospital suffering from COVID-19, Spitz had a postmortem test done and found that the individual who died at home was positive for COVID-19. The virus wasn’t their cause of death, but the individual is counted as a COVID-19 death.
originally posted by: Salander
a reply to: carewemust
That's it--if the data is poor, decisions are made in the dark so to speak.
Source: www.statnews.com...
Want to know how many tuberculosis cases there were in the U.S. last year? Ask the CDC. Want to know about health-care-associated infections? Ask the CDC. It knows.
But ask how many Covid-19 tests have been done, and the CDC’s doesn’t have an answer. Want a daily update on how many people are getting hospitalized for Covid-19? The CDC isn’t tracking it. Want to know if social distancing is making a difference? The CDC doesn’t know.
During this pandemic, when accurate, timely, nationwide information is the lifeblood of our response, the CDC has largely disappeared.
So what say you , the people who were critical.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: SailorJerry
So what say you , the people who were critical.
I say that the CDC directive does not say what the OP thinks it says.
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Pretty old thread, btw.
In cases where a definite diagnosis of COVID–19 cannot
be made, but it is suspected or likely, it
is acceptable to report COVID–19 on a death certificate as
“probable” or “presumed.”
In these instances, certifiers should
use their best clinical judgement in determining if a COVID–19
infection was likely. However, please note that testing for
COVID–19 should be conducted whenever possible.