How Many COVID Deaths Are There, Really?

[mystery-ak]

Posted on June 25, 2020 by John Hinderaker in Coronavirus
How Many COVID Deaths Are There, Really?

Currently the Centers for Disease Control says there have been 121,809 COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. Most people, seeing that figure or reading newspaper headlines about Wuhan virus deaths, assume that means that in 121,809 cases, COVID-19 has been the cause of death. But that isn’t true at all.

This Issues & Insights editorial does a good job of bringing together some of the relevant data. But let’s start with something they didn’t mention: this acknowledgement by the Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health:

I just want to be clear in terms of the definition of people dying of COVID. So, the case definition is very simplistic. It means that at the time of death it was a COVID-positive diagnosis. So that means if you were in hospice and had already been given, you know, a few weeks to live and then you were also found to have COVID, that would be counted as a COVID death. It means that if, technically, even if you died of a clear alternate cause but you had COVID at the same time it’s still listed as a COVID death. So, everyone that’s listed as a COVID death doesn’t mean that that was the cause of the death, but they had COVID at the time of death.

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https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/06/how-many-covid-deaths-are-there-really.php

[PeteS in CA]

I do not expect the MSM to say much about it, let alone do any kind of serious investigation, but I think there are enough bits and pieces "out there" to believe that the current ~127K US Covid-19 death number is substantially padded by the means admitted by the Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health.

[jmyrlefuller]

I just want to be clear in terms of the definition of people dying of COVID. So, the case definition is very simplistic. It means that at the time of death it was a COVID-positive diagnosis. So that means if you were in hospice and had already been given, you know, a few weeks to live and then you were also found to have COVID, that would be counted as a COVID death. It means that if, technically, even if you died of a clear alternate cause but you had COVID at the same time it’s still listed as a COVID death. So, everyone that’s listed as a COVID death doesn’t mean that that was the cause of the death, but they had COVID at the time of death.

In other words, George Floyd was counted as a COVID-related death. That alone should make people question these statistics.