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Over the 31 days ending April 4, more than twice the typical number of New Yorkers died.
That total for the city includes deaths directly linked to the novel coronavirus as well as those from other causes, like heart attacks and cancer. Even this is only a partial count; we expect this number to rise as more deaths are counted.
In Bergamo, fatalities more than quadrupled, while they increased between two- and three-fold in several other Lombardy cities. In some small towns at the heart of the outbreak they were up 10-fold this year compared with 2019.
originally posted by: chr0naut
a reply to: ruckus49
So the people who say that China is evil for lying about its statistics, are lying about their statistics?
And also, how do you deal with an epidemic by just making up numbers? You need accurate numbers to track and hopefully defeat the cases of infection, to know the stages and valid response levels.
Lost in all this idiotic 'casting of doubt' is the fact that there is no motivation at all for inflating the figures unrealistically, or for the fact that there will always be a margin of error, even in the best statistics.
If someone has all the symptoms, and tests positive, but dies from an unrelated cause, they still actually have the virus.
The epidemic statistics are designed, not to accurately reflect cause of death in all cases, but to track and defeat an epidemic. The people trying to fight this can do nothing for the already dead.
originally posted by: Daughter2
NY Times requires a subscription so I can't see the numbers but I found some info from other sites:
On average about 150 die per day in NY, so yes, there was an increase. I would be curious to know the average daily total during years with the H1N1 outbreak.
originally posted by: conspiracy nut
My fear is that next flu season the hospitals will be completely overwhelmed because anytime anyone so much as sneezes they will rush to the e.r. in fears they have coronavirus.
The 2017-2018 influenza epidemic is sending people to hospitals and urgent-care centers in every state, and medical centers are responding with extraordinary measures: asking staff to work overtime, setting up triage tents, restricting friends and family visits and canceling elective surgeries, to name a few.
“We are pretty much at capacity, and the volume is certainly different from previous flu seasons,” says Dr. Alfred Tallia, professor and chair of family medicine at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center in New Brunswick, New Jersey. “I’ve been in practice for 30 years, and it’s been a good 15 or 20 years since I’ve seen a flu-related illness scenario like we’ve had this year.”