Allen53 wrote:
The .26% figure is grossly overstated.
Guidelines recently released by the Centers for Disease Control bolster concerns that the death toll is being rigged to show a higher fatality rate.
“In cases where a definite diagnosis of COVID–19 cannot be made, but it is suspected or likely (e.g., the circumstances are compelling within a reasonable degree of certainty), it is acceptable to report COVID–19 on a death certificate as ‘probable’ or ‘presumed’,” the agency advises. “In these instances, certifiers should use their best clinical judgment in determining if a COVID–19 infection was likely.”
That clinical judgment, alarmingly, does not require administering a test to confirm the presence of the virus.
“Ideally, testing for COVID–19 should be conducted, but it is acceptable to report COVID–19 on a death certificate without this confirmation if the circumstances are compelling within a reasonable degree of certainty,” the guidelines state.
Take a look at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s “Provisional Death Counts for Coronavirus Disease.” As of May 4, the CDC lists 38,576 deaths—about half the number we see being reported in the media. The CDC also lists 17,122 “deaths with pneumonia and COVID-19,” and 66,094 pneumonia deaths.
The director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, Dr. Ngozi Ezike, admitted to the over counting outright- she explained that in her state, anyone who dies with COVID-19 will be listed as a coronavirus death, even if the person was in hospice and COVID-19 played little or no role in the immediate cause of death.
Essentially, Dr. Ezike explained that anyone who passes away after testing positive for the virus is included in that category.
"If you were in hospice and had already been given a few weeks to live, and then you also were found to have COVID, that would be counted as a COVID death. It means 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 who'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 the death." Dr. Ezike outlined.
“Only 12 per cent of death certificates have shown a direct causality from coronavirus,” said the scientific adviser to Italy’s minister of health.
Spain’s national government simply lists how many people with confirmed cases of coronavirus have died and provides no extra information on any other medical conditions.
So deaths are not only being diagnosed by doctors as COVID-19 deaths without being tested, but people who supposedly died of COVID-19 might not have died from it at all.
The percentage of those excess dead who are alleged covid19 victims also needs to be viewed from the perspective that any respiratory complaint is being diagnosed as covid19, with or without a positive test, and that all positive tests are also being listed as covid19 deaths even when the decedent died of another cause and exhibited no symptoms of covid19 .
Now over the last few weeks, the city’s fire officials said more than 2,192 New York City residents died in their homes, compared to 453 during the same time period last year. On average there are 25 deaths in home per week in NYC- last Tuesday for example there was 256.
NYC officials stated that they WILL NOT be conducting tests on these at home deaths nor will they be doing any diagnostics on the cadavers. NYC officials also confirmed that they will begin to count "suspected" COVID-19 deaths in addition to cases confirmed by a laboratory.
Stephanie Buhle, a spokeswoman for the New York City’s Health Department, confirmed the change in protocol.
“The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) and the NYC Health Department are working together to include into their reports deaths that may be linked to COVID but not lab confirmed that occur at home.”
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio in his infinite wisdom acknowledged that the vast majority of deaths taking place at home were likely also due to COVID-19. No tests, no diagnosis but the mayor with his crystal ball stated:
“We do want to know the truth about every death at home, but it’s safe to assume that the vast majority are coronavirus related.”
“The way in which we code deaths in our country is very generous in the sense that all the people who die in hospitals with the coronavirus are deemed to be dying of the coronavirus.”
– Prof Walter Ricciardi, scientific adviser to Italy’s minister of health
“On re-evaluation by the National Institute of Health, only 12 per cent of death certificates have shown a direct causality from coronavirus, while 88 per cent of patients who have died have at least one pre-morbidity – many had two or three,” he says.
All the Covid stats are false. The base assumptions on “COVID death rates” is that those deaths are being reported accurately- they are not.
There are at least 6 areas where these “COVID death” stats are being falsely reported:
1) There is little to no distinction made between those “COVID deaths” that occur from or with COVID- in fact as policy it is now done to avoid that distinction and overemphasize COVID as the causal agent- I will cite that policy if you wish;
2) Extraordinary numbers of in home deaths- which have reached record numbers in NYC somewhere between 500 to 1000% increase- are being categorically listed as “COVID deaths” without testing or diagnosis- this is fraud- I will cite that for you if you wish;
3) The conditions where people are living are going completely ignored- the causal agent of the deaths- “COVID deaths” sweeping through squalid nursing homes and killing off the vulnerable is decidedly not new- they just gave it a name this year and pushed the fear button- a normal flu virus does exactly that and has almost every year for the past decade- no media coverage though and no lockdown;
4) The distinction between “infection” and “disease” are ignored and lead to stories like this:
In Heinsberg, for example, a 78-year-old man with previous illnesses died of heart failure, and that was without Sars-2 lung involvement. Since he was infected, he naturally appears in the Covid 19 statistics.
5) In cases where a definite diagnosis of COVID–19 cannot be made, but it is suspected or likely, it is acceptable to report COVID–19 on a death certificate as “probable” or “presumed.” How is this rigorous, honest or allowed in any sense of the term;
6) The CDC (and the UK NHS e.g.) changed decades old protocol on death reportage just in the last month. That change in policy and language reflected exclusively of COVID reportage. Coincidence? Northern Ireland’s HSC Public Health Agency is releasese weekly surveillance bulletins on the pandemic, in those reports they define a “Covid19 death” as- “individuals who have died within 28 days of first positive result, whether or not COVID-19 was the cause of death.”
NHS England’s Office of National Statistics releases weekly reports on nation-wide mortality. In it’s report (Week 12 – March 14th-20th) released on March 31st they made special mention of Covid19, explaining they were going to change the way they report the numbers in future.
The official NHS guidance for doctors filling out death certificates is just as vague:
“If before death the patient had symptoms typical of COVID19 infection, but the test result has not been received, it would be satisfactory to give ‘COVID-19’ as the cause of death, and then share the test result when it becomes available. In the circumstances of there being no swab, it is satisfactory to apply clinical judgement.”
The government is telling doctors it is OK to list “Covid-19” as a cause of death when there is literally no evidence the deceased was infected. That means there are potentially huge numbers of “Covid19 deaths” that were never even tested for the disease.