07-13-2020, 10:02 PM
(07-13-2020, 09:46 PM)michaelsean Wrote: I don’t trust the death count. My neighbor is listed as a COVID death. Weighed over 600 lbs. Hospitalized at least five times in the last two years. Almost died twice. Called the paramedics one night and they said it’s probably COVID. Two nights later they call again and this time he’s barely conscious. He goes to the hospital and they test him. He dies the next day before his results came back. No word on the test results to his 71 year old mother on the results. Death certificate comes in and just says COVID-19. He died of kidney failure. Anytime they tried to put him on dialysis his BP dropped to a fatal level. Zero mention of kidney failure. Are we supposed to believe they didn’t inform his 71 year old mother whom he lived with that he had COVID? Now I don’t have a problem listing COVID if it contributes to a death, but I don’t think he even had it.
I am not questioning your personal credibility, but there are really no facts to back up the claim that covid deaths are being over-reported. tell your neighbors family to call Fox News because so far they have not been able to provide specific provable cases of non-covid deaths being sttributed to covid 19.
In fact when you look at "excessive deaths" (increase of number of deaths from natural causes over last year) only a fraction of them are attributed to covid. Based on these facts, and the lack of testsing to confirm covid deaths most people who look at the actual numbers feel the number of deaths attributed to covid is actually UNDER REPPORTED.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/07/about-30-covid-deaths-may-not-be-classified-such
The talk about all these hospitals counting every death as covid related is not based on any actual evidence. Instead it is just people saying "Doctors and hospitals will obviously lie in order to get more money."
