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Colorado has made a stunning and significant change to the way it counts COVID-19 deaths that reduced the statewide figure from more than 1,000 to 878, according to a report.
The change came after Colorado’s Department of Public Health admitted that its COVID-19 death toll was counting those who tested positive for the coronavirus but had died of other causes, Fox 31 Denver reported late Friday.
The department now says 1,150 Coloradoans who died had COVID-19 but only 878 of those deaths were “due to” COVID-19.
“We have been reporting at the state, deaths among people who had COVID-19 at the time of death and the cause of that death may or may not have been COVID-19,” Dr. Eric France, the health department’s chief medical officer told the station.
Go here to read the rest. All I can say is:
Update:
And we can add this tidbit:
The supervisor of San Diego County, California, is pushing back against Gov. Gavin Newsom’s stay-at-home order, arguing that only six of the county’s 194 recorded coronavirus deaths are “pure, solely coronavirus deaths.”
“We’ve unfortunately had six pure, solely coronavirus deaths — six out of 3.3 million people,” San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond said in an interview this week, according to the San Diego Tribune. “I mean, what number are we trying to get to with those odds? I mean, it’s incredible. We want to be safe, and we can do it, but unfortunately, it’s more about control than getting the economy going again and keeping people safe.”
Go here to read the rest. This will go down as the first affirmative action pandemic in history.
Even when not trying to be deceptive, assigning a cause of death to the elderly seems sometimes problematic. In my youth more than one doctor wrote guest columns in the papers advocating for the use fo the term “advanced age” as cause on some death certificates, when the patient suffered from multiple conditions. Right now, however, our liberties and trillions in spending and the economy depend on accurate assessment. It may be medicine, but it’s not just about the medicine right now.
This would s hardly a revelation. It’s been known for sometime they were sexing up the death toll. Dr. Birx admitted that a while back.
Which is the bigger con? Climate change, #METoo, or the Pandemic-porn spawned economic suicide?
My vote is Trump Russia collusion as the biggest con.
Or maybe a scandal free Obama administration.
Good ones, Ernst!
I don’t think it’s necessarily unreasonable to count the “last straw” even if it’s ultimately that at 98 or 101 or whatever you were just too worn out to come back from the latest hit, and I do think it would be a bad idea to start undercounting to the degree of, say, “Your BMI is 30 so you didn’t really die of the virus!” — the “it was really only six” bit put my eyebrows up some. But this is… definitely an interesting development.
“Pandemic-porn spawned economic suicide?“
If there was a “phrase of the week” award, this would be far and away the winner. Clocked it pretty well there, T. Shaw.
I saw a framed degree in a foot and ankle dr.’s office which confirms the study of mental hygiene. Looks like causes of insanity are another named study of the discipline, if it still is a discipline.
There is a YouTube video of a Minnesota newscaster interviewing Dr. Scott Jensen, a physician and State Senator in Minnesota. The interview was done almost a month ago and Dr. Jensen outlined several reasons why he believed the numbers were being skewed even then.
The 7-minute clip is titled “How Honest is the Covid Fatality Count?”.
https://youtu.be/IsRay1wlnBg
Well that’s interesting. I tried the link after I published my comment, just to make sure it worked. It takes me to YouTube, which tells me the video is unavailable.
However, when I search the title, the video comes right up.
Not sure what’s happening there, with what should be a perfectly good link…
CLINTON: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsRay1wInBg
The link “Colorado’ Department of Public Health” took me to here:
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https://www.foxnews.com/health/colorado-sees-first-coronavirus-outbreaks-connected-to-childcare-centers
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Children, for the most part, have escaped from this unscathed, but I guess maybe not. Now they are catching an inflammatory illness. If the MSM has not been hyping this, I am sure they will soon. People are rebelling against their Rulers.
Karl, thanks.
It’s a fascinating video.
DJH,
They’re definitely hyping it up already. Even that article you linked to is hyping it up: note that there are no children in Colorado who have contracted the Kawasaki-like disease, and yet they made sure to mention it in an article about the health of Colorado children.
Furthermore, it’s unclear to me how this disease is “Coronavirus-linked” despite every single news report using that terminology. The press release linked in your article even says:
“Polymerase chain reaction testing for SARS-CoV-2 may be positive or negative”
If you go down further in the press release you will see that 15 children with the disease were tested for SARS-CoV-2 and the results were 4 positive and 11 negative, with 6 more testing positive with blood test (meaning that a third still tested negative).
Clinton, I saw that interview on the Ingraham Angle. Thanks for the link. I’ll research. Besides speaking about correct cause of death on certificates Dr Jensen also noted the hospital received $3000 / COVID inpatient and $35,000 for COVID patient on a ventilator. Follow the money always. Abortion is a moneymaker.