https://www.freedomfoundation.com/washington/washington-health-officials-gunshot-victims-counted-as-covid-19-deaths/Washington health officials: Gunshot victims counted as COVID-19 deathsToday, officials at the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) confirmed that, as the Freedom Foundation reported on Monday, the state is counting in its COVID-19 death total the deaths of persons who tested positive for the virus but died from other causes.
In remarks made during a telephonic press briefing, DOH officials even acknowledged knowingly including multiple deaths caused by gunshot wounds in the state’s COVID-19 fatality count.
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* 106 (13 percent) deaths involved persons who had previously tested positive for COVID-19 but did not have the virus listed anywhere on their death certificate as either causing or contributing to death.
Basically, the State of Washington counted as a Covid-19 death anyone who was coronavirus-positive at the time of their death, regardless of actual cause. In concrete terms, over 1 in 8 of WA's reported Covid-19 deaths were unrelated to this coronavirus. Another 1 in 20 were deaths in which Covid-19 was a factor but not the sole cause.
