Posted by:
Free Man
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Date: April 23, 2020 12:26AM
Conspiracy theories:
"Does Utah fail to properly count the actual deaths? (and thus the numbers are bogus?)"
"Suspicious accounting. From mostly Red states."
". . . so Trump wants the daily death number to slow to a trickle" [should we hope it rises?]
Pick what your want to believe - cases underreported? Or cases overreported?
Doctor and state senator discusses reporting of corona deaths to CDC by doctors, and how the rules are ridiculous. And how much money from medicare for corona patients.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qWmiWf81zIhttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/have-many-coronavirus-patients-died-italy/quote
In very crude terms, this means that around nine per cent of confirmed coronavirus patients have died in Italy, compared to four per cent in China. By this measure Germany, which has so far identified 28,865 cases and 118 deaths, has a fatality rate of just 0.4 per cent.
So why the disparity?
According to Prof Walter Ricciardi, scientific adviser to Italy’s minister of health, the country’s mortality rate is far higher due to demographics - the nation has the second oldest population worldwide - and the manner in which hospitals record deaths.
“The age of our patients in hospitals is substantially older - the median is 67, while in China it was 46,” Prof Ricciardi says. “So essentially the age distribution of our patients is squeezed to an older age and this is substantial in increasing the lethality.”
But Prof Ricciardi added that Italy’s death rate may also appear high because of how doctors record fatalities.
“The way in which we code deaths in our country is very generous in the sense that all the people who die in hospitals with the coronavirus are deemed to be dying of the coronavirus.
“On re-evaluation by the National Institute of Health, only 12 per cent of death certificates have shown a direct causality from coronavirus, while 88 per cent of patients who have died have at least one pre-morbidity - many had two or three,” he says.