All the Flu Bros screamed “but X number die every year from the flu”!
Nope. Those numbers are estimates by the CDC. The vast majority are never confirmed flu deaths. They get lumped into a category called “Influenza like illness”.
or ILI.
What we are doing with Covid is nothing new.
Again, if the clinical picture fits the disease, we as physicians are likely to attribute the death to that condition especially during an epidemic.
Doing nothing new?!
We don’t croak the economy for frigging flu.
Kinda like all the people around the Clintons.
It was suicide
So are all of those formerly ILI attributable deaths now classified as Covid-19 deaths?
If you look at all of the negative tests in this country, they must have some virus similar to Covid-19 in order to get tested.
Ultimately, could this cause the Covid-19 death rate to be overstated and something like influenza understated?