Crank into the equation the financial incentive to code the deaths as Covid-19. Lots of bucks, and whose gonna check behind you?
As a critical care physician i try to be as precise as possible. We are at first scientists. Let’s say I have a patient with a zillion comorbidities. They get corona virus and struggle and die. Well in my judgment the corona virus kicked them over the cliff. In this case it is the proximal cause of death. So this is what it would be listed as
1. Acute hypodermic respiratory failure as a result of
2. SARS related to CoVId 19.
Associated causes of death: Morbid obesity, CAD, uncontrolled type II DM snd COPD
The above is a hypothetical example
But Iif someone dies related to ARDS but there is no positive test you can’t call it due to whatever the topic of the day is. It’s why the code not otherwise specified exists.
And with all due respect to my ER colleague I have never in 20 years of medicine seen an ER doc follow up a patient on the floor. They have a complex job is arrive at a decision and make the best guess as to level of care. I believe they are doing the best they can but like everyone else (me included) our judgments become a function of our experience.
Crank into the equation the financial incentive to code the deaths as Covid-19. Lots of bucks, and whose gonna check behind you?
Lots of bucks is an understatment’ TRILLIONS of bucks are in the offing...and TRILLIONS more are being schemed as we speak, especially by the left. With that kind of money on the table, people are going to chase it like they do toilet paper.