“So someone dies with fever, hypoxia and viral pneumonia during a pandemic.
guess what they died of?
We do this all the time in medicine.”
This is a new directive. I assume in the past if you died of pneumonia while also having a viral infection such as the flu the cause of death for reporting purposes would most likely be pneumonia.
Of course, that would understate total deaths caused by the flu in past years if they had been required to use this new criterion.
Of course, that would understate total deaths caused by the flu in past years if they had been required to use this new criterion.
It's just the flu, bro!
Turns out the flu deaths were brushed off as pneumonia and under reported, bro!