The Big Surge In Coronavirus Deaths Is A Media-Fed Myth

[Right_in_Virginia]

The Big Surge In Coronavirus Deaths Is A Media-Fed Myth
Issues & Insights, Jul 22, 2020, Editorial Board

Almost daily now we’ve been reading about how daily deaths from COVID-19 have reached record highs. It’s a scary prospect. But the truth is the mainstream press is grossly misleading the public by misreporting the death counts.

Here’s a typical report, from USA Today a few days ago: “As the outbreak continues to surge across the southern states, Florida, Texas and South Carolina set records for new daily deaths, reporting 156, 129 and 69, respectively.”

ABC News reported that “Nineteen states set single-day records for the most cases this week … Three states set a record today.”

According to PBS in Arizona, the state “on Saturday (July 18) set a record for coronavirus-related deaths reported in one day, with 147, according to the Arizona Department of Health Services.”

The last story is particularly illuminating because the website the PBS article links to includes a chart of daily deaths in the state. It lists only six deaths on July 19. What’s more, the chart shows that there have only been two days where deaths exceeded 65.

So where did that scary 147 number come from? The same place all the other “surging” numbers come from. Each day Arizona and other states file reports on how many people died from COVID-19. It’s not a measure of how many died that day. In most cases, the people died days or even weeks earlier.

In fact, in Arizona’s case, 106 of the reported deaths on Saturday resulted from a periodic review of death certificates.

None of those caveats made it into the PBS story.

The same thing happened in Florida, when a wave of news reports screamed about how the state had recorded 156 deaths in one day last week.


More:  https://issuesinsights.com/2020/07/22/the-big-surge-in-coronavirus-deaths-is-a-media-fed-myth/

[Bigun]

  ABSOLUTELY!!!

[Slide Rule]

Other states taking the same approach? Yes, Ohio did it the current week. Ohio also did this about 8 weeks back. Both enough to
move Ohio up one position in the States.

This means that the worst of the Surge may have already happened and the current panic being stoked by negligent media and their cohorts in the medical industry. That is their unwillingness to accurately report or any ability to understand the basics of reporting data. This is not accurate reporting, it is a travesty scaring the weak of mind.

Look for the discontinuities to see the fabricated surges.

[Cyber Liberty]

The press hit a trifecta.  They fudge the case numbers by conflating antibody and infection test results, they also fudge the case number by not moving people into "recovered," and now they're fudging the death count, by batching and bogus CODs where a person killed in a car crash counts as a COVID-19 death.

I knew this would happen, their "tell" was when they said policy would be driven by data.  That guaranteed data fudging to get the desired policy.

[Bigun]

The press hit a trifecta.  They fudge the case numbers by conflating antibody and infection test results, they also fudge the case number by not moving people into "recovered," and now they're fudging the death count, by batching and bogus CODs where a person killed in a car crash counts as a COVID-19 death.

I knew this would happen, their "tell" was when they said policy would be driven by data.  That guaranteed data fudging to get the desired policy.