Are these cases dying from COVID ...or dying with COVID?
Obviously, I don’t know all these cases, and we have gotten better at treating the most severely ill - but don’t be deceived, people are dying every day of overwhelming lung damage from COVID-19 and nothing else.
The covid death definition is very simple. If you die, and you have covid, you are a covid death. Even if you die of a clear alternate cause, you are classified a covid death. Fall off a cliff to your death, but you test positive for covid, you are a covid death.
And we wonder why the numbers are all screwed up.
Now lets get into positive tests. If you go to a free drive up testing place, and test positive, you are a covid case. Go to your doctor immediately after, they will test you again, now you are two cases.
Now lets add the fact, that during testing if you have antibodies (i.e. already had it and recovered) you are counted as a case.
Even with all this “fuzzy math” we still only get numbers that are not so bad. Imagine if they weeded out all this nonsense, you would see numbers far lower than those shown here.
Deaths are not up, they have been falling since late April. Cases are up due to testing being up. And what happens when a denominator grows but the numerator does not?
I encourage everyone to dig into the numbers. Find out what the definition of each is. Once you do this, your fear bubble will dissipate.
I would feel a lot better if we could just know the real truth about the new cases & the deaths. Don’t buy a lot of what is being passed off as truth these days. I guess that is because there seem to be too many versions of it.