Posted on 08/03/2020 6:47:48 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) claims Milwaukee County had 438 COVID-19 deaths as of July 31st, but the county said it only had 384 – a discrepancy of 54.
The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office told MacIver News that they only count deaths that occur in Milwaukee County. Staff believed the state was counting everyone with a Milwaukee home of record in the DHS total.
However, DHS says that it relies on figures provided by the county in its totals.
“Deaths must be reported by health care providers, medical examiners/coroners, and recorded by local health departments in order to be counted,” according to DHS’s COVID-19 website.
The MacIver Institute further checked the COVID-19 death totals for all the counties that surround Milwaukee County and for the counties surrounding those counties. MacIver checked both local and state data. Afterwards, the state death total was still 49 deaths higher than the combined local totals.
If DHS’ death totals are truly off by 49, that means the official state death count is off by 5 percent.
There is a note on DHS’ website that the death totals for the last two weeks are still “preliminary.” However, that still doesn’t explain where DHS got the inaccurate Milwaukee numbers in the first place. Also, as of two weeks ago DHS claimed Milwaukee County had 404 deaths, while the county only counted 366. That overcount apparently was never corrected and has only grown since then.
I’d be curious to see how this plays out at the COUNTY level in each State.
So much misinformation and bad data out there!
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Whatever the higher one is, that’s the correct one.
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C’mon it’s like an election keep counting till you get the result you want...then stop.
Interesting. I wonder if this is another stats inflating scam that they have pulled more broadly: double counting anyone who passed away with a second home.
It’s funny how “official” COVID-19 deaths seem to be NEVER UNDERCOUNTED but ALWAYS OVER-COUNTED.
Diana, always remember, each hospital receives $39,000.00 from uncle sugar for every reported stiff with a chi-com virus tag on their toe.
Cancer, heart attack, diabetes, shot in the head, car wreck, suicide, kidney failure, regular flu, irregular flu, SARS flu, spanish flu, nigerian flu, or flew the coop, the hospital gets NADA.
What in the world would make anyone think that a hospital director would lean toward the chi-com virus as cause of death?
I'll take $39,000.00 for a $1,000, Alex.
Oh, I understand that.
Our state (Purple, but went for Trump last time around) has her hand out for the cash grab. We’re saddled with a POS Socialist Governor for now, as well. :(
I was scheduled for a Covid test at the VA (drive through) prior to a procedure scheduled a few days later. I think I’m going to cancel it all until we get the Covid all-clear in our state.
All of these false-positives are freaking me out and I do NOT want to be a statistical part of fraud, waste and abuse of (my) Federal Tax Dollars.
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