Why and how COVID-19 deaths are tracked in Illinois

[Saint_Ann]

https://www.wandtv.com/news/why-and-how-covid-19-deaths-are-tracked-in-illinois/article_2085ddaa-93e8-11ea-b1c2-7fd058d907cf.html


On April 19, Dr. Ngozi Ezike, with the Illinois Department of Public Health, answered a question about COVID-19 related deaths with underlying health conditions.

"Technically, if you died of a clear alternate cause, but you had COVID-19 at the same time - it's still listed as a COVD death," Dr. Ezike answered. "Everyone who's listed as a COVID death doesn't mean that was the cause of death, but they had COVID at the time."

 

[SpeareChucker]

I've seen more than one article pondering the idea that
the numbers are being inflated, some even insinuating
that it is a political tactic...

At this point, I think that must be in consideration.

 

[Saint_Ann]

That pretty much tells it like it is.

 

[SpeareChucker]

Florida: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politi...sts-it-could-be-as-much-as-30-percent-n632542

 

[Saint_Ann]

Computational propaganda.

 

[Bad_Egg]

Canadians do like to stick their heads in the sand.

Stupid Canadian faggot deny that virus deadly. Haha

https://media.giphy.com/media/idMtYoeDfQFlDNvhbl/giphy.gif

 

[kissedcherry]

Deadly but so is the flu

Stupid usa faggot deny that virus deadly. Haha

We all agree that the China virus is deadly. Show me ANY proof that anyone is claiming that it is not deadly. But it is clearly not as deadly as the left wants people to think. So you clearly are making a strawman argument.

If you can't see that they are using it as a political weapon then there is no sense reasoning with you. Car crashes are deadly but we don't close the highways.

The flu is deadly but when people with the flu die of a heart attack we don't list it as a flu death. And we don't shut down businesses and force people to wear masks that don't do much of anything.

If you can stand in a pig barn and can't smell pig shit then you have just spent too much time in the barn.

 

[SugarDaddy1]

The COVID-19 effect: How $5k can quickly turn into $39k

Hospitals and doctors get paid more for Medicare patients diagnosed with COVID-19 — or if it's presumed they've contracted the virus save for laboratory-confirmed tests — and then the payout triples if those patients are placed on ventilators, a USA Today fact check confirms.

On April 14, New York City's total coronavirus death toll saw a major spike after officials added more than 3,700 fatalities to the count "including people who had never tested positive for the virus but were presumed to have died of it."

On April 15, Jensen noted on his Facebook page: "How can anyone not believe that increasing the number of COVID-19 deaths may create an avenue for states to receive a larger portion of federal dollars."

Four days later, he said via video on his Facebook page that "hospital administrators might well want to see COVID-19 attached to a discharge summary or a death certificate. Why? Because if it's a straightforward, garden-variety pneumonia that a person is admitted to the hospital for — if they're Medicare — typically, the diagnosis-related group lump sum payment would be $5,000. But if it's COVID-19 pneumonia, then it's $13,000, and if that COVID-19 pneumonia patient ends up on a ventilator, it goes up to $39,000," USA Today reported.

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