--actual deaths from only covid is much much lower than the official numbers.... most had other diseases that might have caused their deaths.
I wonder: If you have other diseases, test positive, have trouble breathing, and die of respiratory failure, I would count it as a covid death. Ah, but what if they die of a heart attack because covid caused low oxygen and stress?
Not easy.
But what no one wants to say: Covid is mainly a disease of old people near the end of life and not life threatening to ordinary folks.
But shutting down the economy of the world, increasing unemployment, and causing economic problems will destroy more lives of normal people.
and then you see that delay in cancer diagnosis may have caused 50 thousand deaths.
We had two elderly friends die at home in the last week: one with prostate cancer and another neighbor who was 88. Neither had covid symptoms.
so if hospitals in the USA are paid better if people have a covid diagnosis, does it mean they might put this as the first cause of death, not as a comorbidity?
and that doesn't include the 100 000 deaths from illegal opioids, mainly Fentanyl.
ah, but they arrested 800 people for distributing these drugs. Huh?
No mention in the article that maybe the open border has something to do with it, because hey pointing that out means you are an anti Hispanic bigot. (personal note here: Half my family is from Latin America).
Essentially Dr. C is saying the numbers might not be accurate.
Here in the Philippines, you have to go way down past the scary graphs to find what is going on:
January 20 (GMT)
Updates
- 31,173 new cases and 110 new deaths in the Philippines [source]
this is out of a population of 100 million. But may not be accurate, since as I noted, old folks die at home of "old age".... and with the omnicron virus, many are just staying home and not being tested.
for a country where the statistics might be accurate:
Japan reports a huge surge (46 000) but few deaths (9)
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