07-28-2021, 12:52 PM
(07-28-2021, 12:06 PM)Sled21 Wrote: Not for nothing, but I don't know that Covid 19 does either. I know for a fact I have had 1 family member who died with Covid, but not from Covid, who was counted as a Covid death. That tells me when I see figures like flu deaths, etc., declining, there is some funny math involved, which tends to follow the money. Not that I'm downplaying the disease, but it's pretty apparent numbers are skewed.
From my understanding, if a patient goes into the hospital and dies of upper respiratory issues and it's a COVID symptom it's marked as a COVID related death. To me if you die of a symptom of a virus then it's probably caused by that virus so it should be reported as a COVID death.
It's kind of like in my mind, when it comes to cancer. Does every cancer patient die of cancer? No they die of unlaying issues from cancer. I guess the cancer numbers in our country probably are skewed too because cancer patient don't always die of cancer, but symptoms.
Then again maybe I'm wrong because I'm not a medical professional so I try and stick to my own line of work where I specialize.
