With Covid

 

With Covid

JUST 6% OF US DEATH “FROM COVID-19” AS 94% HAD 2.9 PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS OR CAUSE PER DEATH

Back in April 2020, the CDC made a change that drastically altered the reporting of Covid-19 deaths: a person could be marked as having died from Covid-19 when it in fact they were not even diagnosed as having Covid-19.

"In cases where a definite diagnosis of COVID cannot be made but is suspected or likely (e.g. the circumstances are compelling with a reasonable degree of certainty) it is acceptable to report COVID-19 on a death certificate as 'probable' or 'presumed.'" (1)

With this change, the CDC abandoned its theretofore axiom of “precision and specificity” in reporting deaths.

Previously, a person who died of pneumonia during an influenza epidemic—that did not get tested for influenza—would have been marked a pneumonia death. With this change in guidelines, however, a person who never positively tested for Covid-19 could still be marked a Covid-19 death.

DYING OF A CLEAR, ALTERNATE CAUSE

In addition to potentially compromised deaths counts due to a lack of a diagnosis, people testing positive with a PCR test that later died would be marked a Covid-19 death. For example, if a person with emphysema given 3 weeks left to live contracts Covid-19 and dies, they would also be marked a Covid-19 death. (The PCR test is also controversial as it was never designed to be primary diagnostic tool as it’s now being used and is prone to false positive results.)

“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,” Dr Ngozi Ezike, Illinois Public Health Director. “Everyone who is listed as a Covid death doesn’t mean that was the cause the cause of the death, but they had Covid at the time of death.” (2)

This reporting inaccuracy is not just limited to the U.S. In Canada, Toronto Public Health tweeted, “Individuals who have died with COVID-19, but not as a result of COVID-19 are included in the case counts for COVID-19 deaths in Toronto.” (3)

How can such an imprecise death certification protocol be implemented and continue to drive government emergency response policies?
https://twitter.com/TOPublicHealth/status/1275888390060285967
Individuals who have died with COVID-19, but not as a result of COVID-19 are included in the case counts for COVID-19 deaths in Toronto.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pQZUi7C_Vs
DYING WITH AND FROM COVID-19 -- A WHO GUIDELINE
https://web.archive.org/web/20210107141424/https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/vsrg/vsrg03-508.pdf
Guidance for Certifying Deaths Due to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID–19)