https://www.foxnews.com/politics/birx-says-government-is-classifying-all-deaths-of-patients-with-coronavirus-as-covid-19-deaths-regardless-of-causehttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/well/live/coronavirus-doctors-hospitals-emergency-care-heart-attack-stroke.htmlso, real talk
are coronavirus deaths being significantly overcounted by including unrelated deaths among people who have symptoms or tested positive?
Or is it a product of a reluctance to seek care?
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In an informal Twitter poll by @angioplastyorg, an online community of cardiologists, almost half of the respondents reported that they are seeing a 40 percent to 60 percent reduction in admissions for heart attacks; about 20 percent reported more than a 60 percent reduction.
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There are other countries that if you had a pre-existing condition, and let's say the virus caused you to go to the ICU [intensive care unit] and then have a heart or kidney problem," she said during a Tuesday news briefing at the White House. "Some countries are recording that as a heart issue or a kidney issue and not a COVID-19 death.
"The intent is ... if someone dies with COVID-19 we are counting that," she added.
If the number of heart disease deaths and other conditions like kidney problems is declining conspicuously and significantly, as well as a gigantic reduction in the number of deaths recorded as pneumonia, how much of the coronavirus death toll can be explained as just the reclassification of other mortality causes? ex;
The other side of that is- how do you distinguish between deaths not caused by coronavirus in those who have it, and deaths caused in part by it as it aggravated existing conditions? Those who are immunocompromised or have longstanding heart issues are high risk for a reason, and the effects of covid 19 inhibiting metabolism by binding to the 1-b chain of hemoglobin probably fucks with all sorts of other 'unrelated' vulnerabilities. When people's lungs are inflamed, carrying less oxygen into the blood, it could cause those heart attacks or kidney failure in people predisposed to it by other issues.
So its some food for thought. Maybe the outbreak's death toll would be much lower than reported