How many of those deaths are died with covid instead of died from it?
Was the diagnosis based on flawed test procedures?
I have no idea.
You may have no idea
@country_hick, but the doctors, scientists, researchers, epidemiologists and medical examiners do.
For some reason, time and time again on this forum you put forth various right wing conspiracy theories, the last time being a litany of climate change denial allegations that turned out to be demonstrably false and were connected to right wing and far-right wing political operatives, think tanks and PACs funded by the fossil fuel industry and other vested interests.
This time you are basically parroting a QAnon conspiracy theory posted on Twitter, based on an incorrect understanding of the morbidity statistics that has been picked up and exploited by right wing conservatives as a political tool, even more so after it was retweeted by President Donald Trump. It started with a tweet from a follower of QAnon who misinterpreted the statistic to mean that only 6 percent of those deaths were “actually” from COVID.
Twitter later removed the tweet and told
the Washington Post it violated the site’s policies about coronavirus misinformation. But the claims are still making their way around the internet—and they play well with previous coronavirus conspiracy theories, like the incorrect claim that
hospitals purposely inflate their reports of coronavirus patients or that
public health departments are inflating COVID-19 deaths.
I really wish you would engage in some critical thinking and due diligence before you buy into this kind of stuff, country_hick.
Do you really believe that thousands of the world's leading medical professionals, doctors, scientists, virologists, epidemiologists, healthcare workers, universities, medical examiners and coroners are engaged in some sort of wild coordinated conspiracy to convince everyone that 1,223,252 people to date have died since January from a global COVID-19 pandemic when they are really dying from some other unrelated maladies? To what end exactly?
COVID-19 is a new, complex disease that is more than just respiratory, in particular it is vascular and systemically highly inflammatory. Most people are dying of pneumonias and respiratory failure but many people hospitalized with COVID are dying of all sorts of comorbidities brought on by the virus itself, including sepsis, blood clots, strokes, heart attacks and other organ failures. The nearest analogue is when people with cancer technically die of multiple organ failure, not directly from their tumors, per se. There are many such examples in medicine where the actual cause of death was not the specific disease diagnosis but were ultimately caused by the various physical effects of a particular disease which might manifest differently in different patients. Also, people with pre-exisitng comorbidities are dying after they contract COVID-19 but these patients were otherwise not at any imminent risk of death until they came down with COVID.
Why not read some good, intelligent journalism and find out exactly what this "theory" that people are dying "
with" COVID-19 rather than
from COVID-19 is really all about?
No, 94 Percent of COVID-19 Deaths Were Not Caused by Something Else
SNOPES:
- Did CDC ‘Quietly Update’ COVID-19 Deaths To Say Only 6% Are Legitimate? - FALSE -
A rumor downplaying the seriousness of the deadly virus was promoted by a group of people that included U.S. President Donald Trump
