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A coroner in Colorado is sounding the alarm over how deaths in her county are being counted and attributed to Wuhan coronavirus.
"The coroner, Brenda Bock, says two of their five deaths related to COVID-19 were people who died of gunshot wounds," CBS News Denver reports. "Bock says because they tested positive for COVID-19 within the past 30 days, they were classified as 'deaths among cases.'"
Bock is calling the classification "absurd" and raises concerns death classifications are falsely driving the narrative about the direction of the pandemic. Health officials in the state say they're simply following guidance from the Centers for Disease Control on how to classify deaths of individuals from and with the virus.
The state will often collect data before the death certificates are signed, because that process can take weeks. This gives epidemiologists a faster and better picture of how serious the spread is and how it’s impacting the general population.
“Today, Colorado’s reporting 4,156 COVID deaths, these are actually deaths among cases. Then they show 3,230 deaths due to COVID, and so they’re differentiating that, but I think it can maybe go a little further and I think the policy could be changed,” said Richard Cimino, Grand County Commissioner for District 1.
Cimino says while the state is doing a decent job at making a discrepancy, he agrees with Bock. It could be done better, and while the death count won’t impact where Grand County sits on the states dial, for a rural community, just one death from COVID impacts public perception.
You can get attacked by a polar bear, but if its within a 28 day period...you died of Covid.
originally posted by: lakenheath24
In the UK,, they count a COZVVID death 28 days after a positive test. Even though you only have to quarantine for 10 days.
How the hell does that make sense? You can get attacked by a polar bear, but if its within a 28 day period...you died of Covid.
a reply to: 727Sky
Seems as though the numbers and cause of death match up eventually.
originally posted by: lakenheath24
You don't die 28 days after either.
a reply to: ScepticScot
originally posted by: lakenheath24
Then why has mandatory quarantine been lowered from 14 to ten days?
So you are trying to say that after a positive test, one could still be sick and die 28 days later?
I call shenanigans on that. I'd need to see some evidence.
a reply to: ScepticScot
This gives epidemiologists a faster and better picture of how serious the spread is and how it’s impacting the general population.