Wasn’t the CDC and/or the Federales forced to vastly reduce the number of deaths from the Chicom virus because of bad reporting and perverse incentives for reporting deaths as being related to COVID-19?
RE: Wasn’t the CDC and/or the Federales forced to vastly reduce the number of deaths from the Chicom virus because of bad reporting and perverse incentives for reporting deaths as being related to COVID-19?
I can’t speak for other countries as I have not had the chance to dive into their numbers, but I can speak about what’s happening in the USA as I live here and see the numbers changing up and down all the time, but I suspect what I observe is STILL RELEVANT everywhere.
Here’s my take on this entire Covid-19 death count issue :
There may be four types of recorded coronavirus deaths:
(1) Deaths only caused by COVID-19
(2) Deaths in which COVID-19 ended the life of someone already struggling with health conditions,
(3) Deaths from other causes but after a patient had tested positive for the virus, and
(4) Deaths falsely marked “COVID-19” when there was not even a test.
Deaths of type 1 and 2 are rightly considered Coronavirus deaths, while deaths of type 3 are much harder to distinguish from type 2, and deaths of type 4 are completely inflating the numbers.
The question to ask is this — in our statistics (i.e. 200,000 deaths), HOW MANY PERCENT ARE TYPE 3 and 4? HOW MANY ARE TYPE 1 and 2?
I can tell you that there are states now that admit that they are overcounting Type 3 and 4 deaths.
I’m going to withhold my conclusions regarding the lethality of this virus until we get better data.