Posted on 07/20/2020 3:19:19 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Motorcycle accidents ruled Covid deaths? In the rush to paint Florida as the epicenter of the “second wave” of the coronavirus outbreak, government officials and their allies in the mainstream media have stooped to ridiculous depths to maximize the death count. A television station this weekend looked into two highly unusual Covid deaths among victims in their 20s, and when they asked about co-morbidities they were told one victim had none, because his Covid death came in the form of a fatal motorcycle accident.
Sadly, this is not an isolated incident. In fact the “spike” that has dominated the mainstream for the last couple of weeks is full of examples of such trickery.
Washington state last week revised its Covid death numbers downward when it was revealed that anyone who passed away for any reason whatsoever who also had coronavirus was listed as a “Covid-19 death” even if the cause of death had nothing to do with Covid-19.
In South Carolina, the state health agency admitted that the “spike” in Covid deaths was only the result of delayed reporting of suspected Covid deaths.
An analysis of reported daily Covid deaths last week compared to actual day-of-death in Houston revealed that the recent “spike” consisted largely of deaths that occurred in April through June. Why delay reporting until now?
We do know that based on this “spike” the Democrat mayor of Houston cancelled the convention of the Texas Republican Party. Mission accomplished?
Doesn’t it seem suspicious that so many states have experienced “delayed” reporting of deaths until Fauci and his gang of “experts” announced that we are in a new nightmare scenario?
Last week in Florida – which is perhaps not coincidentally the location of the Republican Party’s national convention – another scandal emerged when hundreds of Covid test centers reported 100 percent positive results. Obviously this would paint a far grimmer picture of the resurgence of the virus. Orlando Health, for example, reported a positivity rate of 98 percent – a shocking level – but a further investigation revealed a true positivity rate of only 9.4 percent. Those “anomalies” were repeated throughout the state.
“Cases” once meant individuals who displayed sufficient symptoms to be treated in medical facilities. But when the scaremongers needed a “second wave” they began reporting any positive test result as a “Covid case.” No wonder we have a “spike.”
Politics demands that politicians be seen doing “something” rather than nothing, even if that something is more harmful than doing nothing at all. That is why Washington is so addicted to sanctions.
The same has been true especially in Republican-controlled states in the US in response to the coronavirus. Faced with a virus that has killed about one-third as many people as the normal, seasonal flu virus in 2018, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has endorsed a partial shutdown of the economy resulting in millions tossed into the despair of unemployment. Then he arbitrarily shut down bars because massively increased testing showed more people have been exposed to the virus. And he mandated that people wear face masks. Neither shutting down bars (instead of restaurants or Walmarts) nor forcing people to wear masks will have any effect on the progression of the virus through society. But at least he looks like he’s doing “something.”
We are facing the greatest assault on our civil liberties in our lifetimes. The virus is real, but the government reaction is political and totalitarian. As it falls apart, will more Americans start fighting for their liberty?
I had a sore throat last month and the doctor refused to see me except by telemedicine.
Reason? I presented Covid symptoms!
WTF? What if it just allergies? What if it was the beginning stage of cancer?
I filled out a long form saying I have ZERO other symptoms and another Covid form saying again I have ZERO symptoms.
STupid
STupid
STupid
I dind’t see her and the problem went away ...for now.
I have to wonder if they put in one’s medical file with symptoms such as yours a positive for the virus? You just never know!!
Vital Statistics Reference Guidance 03, April 2020(CDC)
See Attachment
Cause-of-Death Reporting
When reporting cause of death on a death certificate, use any
information available, such as medical history, medical records,
laboratory tests, an autopsy report, or other sources of relevant
information. Similar to many other diagnoses, a cause-of-death
statement is an informed medical opinion that should be based
on sound medical judgment drawn from clinical training and
experience, as well as knowledge of current disease states and
local trends (6).
Part I
This section on the death certificate is for reporting the sequence
of conditions that led directly to death. The immediate cause of
death, which is the disease or condition that directly preceded
death and is not necessarily the underlying cause of death
(UCOD), should be reported on line a. The conditions that led
to the immediate cause of death should be reported in a logical
sequence in terms of time and etiology below it.
The UCOD, which is “(a) the disease or injury which initiated
the train of morbid events leading directly to death or (b) the
circumstances of the accident or violence which produced the
fatal injury” (7), should be reported on the lowest line used in
Part I.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/vsrg/vsrg03-508.pdf
https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download
Page 3
INTENDED USE
Positive results are indicative of active infection with
2019-nCoV but do not rule out bacterial infection or co-infection with other viruses. The agent detected
may not be the definite cause of disease. Laboratories within the United States and its territories are
required to report all positive results to the appropriate public health authorities.
Negative results do not preclude 2019-nCoV infection and should not be used as the sole basis for treatment or other patient management decisions.”
Translation: A positive test doesn’t guarantee that the COVID virus is causing infection at all. Then again, maybe the COVID virus is not be in the patient’s body either.
https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download
From the World Health Organization (WHO): “Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) technical guidance: Laboratory testing for 2019-nCoV in humans” https://bit.ly/3cidWiS
“Several assays that detect the 2019-nCoV have been and are currently under development, both in-house and commercially. Some assays may detect only the novel virus [COVID] and some may also detect other strains (e.g. SARS-CoV) that are genetically similar.”
Translation: Some PCR tests register positive for types of coronavirus that have nothing to do with COVID—including plain old coronas that cause nothing more than a cold.
As far as the “assays that detect the 2019-nCOV that are currently under development. Yeah, just a few.
For a test that is supposed to be so definitive and accurate, there sure are a great many firms in development of testing for the diagnosis of COVID-19
Actually, 746 of them the diagnostic pipeline at the time of this post as a matter of fact. https://bit.ly/3clw4Za
If the testing on this is so definitive, why are 746 companies still developing testing for it?
Possibly because they still have not effectively isolated the virus and still don’t know what exactly it is that they are looking for.
Or could it be that it is extremely difficult to detect this SARS-CoV-2 virus because it is easily defeated by the immune system? (Note: SARS-CoV-2 virus. Hmmm…thought this was something so novel we have not seen it before? When then is it so similar to the SARS virus that it is called SARS-CoV-2 then? That would indicate that it is similar in nature to a virus we are well aware of so similar to a known virus that it is labeled as -2.
Gee, maybe not so novel after all huh? No more novel than any other mutated SARS virus which is quite common with RNA viruses like this SARS-CoV-2 virus btw. All RNA viruses mutate regularly which is why these virus vaccines are so ineffective, their target changes so quickly.
Or possibly that it is so immensely difficult to test an individual for a specific virus when the samples are always contaminated with all kinds of germs including bacteria, other viral strains and other DNA/RNA bearing tissues?
But what do the manufacturers say about the COVID diagnostic test? How about this gem from Creative Diagnostics, a popular test manufacturer:
This product is intended for the detection of 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). The detection result of this product is only for clinical reference, and it should not be used as the only evidence for clinical diagnosis and treatment. https://bit.ly/2KnJ4kP
In other words: Don’t use the test result alone to diagnose infection or disease.
Pretty confident about their testing huh?
Perhaps that is why the CDC includes “probable cases” in their statistical counts:
What is a COVID-19 probable case?
A probable case or death is defined by
Meeting clinical criteria AND epidemiologic evidence with no confirmatory laboratory testing performed for COVID-19; or
Meeting presumptive laboratory evidence AND either clinical criteria OR epidemiologic evidence; or Meeting vital records criteria with no confirmatory laboratory testing performed for COVID-19. https://bit.ly/3bdziMV
Translation: You don’t even have to have “confirmatory laboratory testing performed” in order for the case to be considered a COVID-19 case.
I guess that could be helpful to the hospitals who have had their cash cows of elective surgery eliminated (80% of many hospitals incomes) and are losing money now.
They could just drop a medicare patient into the “probable COVID-19 category” and go from a standard Medicare admit of $4,600 to a COVID admit billable for $13,000 now. About a 3X billable increase.
And heck, if they can get them on a ventilator with a COVID diagnosis, the Medicare admit jumps to $39,000, over an 8-fold increase!
I guess its a conspiracy theory to imagine that hospitals losing money due to the contraction of their scheduled surgery income would begin to amazingly turn up more COVID cases and put some of these people with respiratory issues on ventilators as well.
Yeah…might not have anything to do with increasing revenues I guess since we know that ALL hospitals and doctors operate with full integrity and complete concern for ALL patients.
Uh, interested in a bridge in Brooklyn real cheap?
But hey, it’s all just b.s. right doc?
I ain't buying it.........
Please watch this video, especaly the end. There is a huge story here to tell here. It was told to the Senate, passed to the White House, then the CDC, guess who ignored it outright. The CDC, FDA, plus wanted a more expensive path. For all the back ground see #covidcare.
New to parler and just learning how to get this around. Please help.
The FDA insisting HCQ could only be used in hospitals was a diversion from where it was realy needed. If was a trial designed to fail. It has to be used early with zinc.
There is a treatment for the second stage of covid that is being supressed.
We need an exec order to release HCQ stocks to the vulnerable, yesterday..
The good news is my daughter, while quarantined on Ft. Bragg with my grandson and SIL all tested negative after too much delay. I am almost positive that they are in a some statistic that shows them being positive simply because they were forced to quarantine.
Hospitals Get Paid More For ‘Coronavirus’ Patients, Even If They Haven’t Been Tested
Send "Orange Man Bad" federal and state government desperate Democrats and RINOs home in November!
Supporting PDJT with a new patriot Congress and state government leaders that will promise to fully support his already excellent work for MAGA and stopping SARS-CoV-2 will effectively give fast-working Trump a "third term" in office imo.
Ron Paul focuses on the anomalies coming out of Texas and Florida.
BBC polticizes Texas & Florida, while bemoaning both HAVE BEEN politicized:
Texas segment 30m in to 37m39s - Dr. Joseph Varon, Chief of Critical Care Services of United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, followed immediately by Florida: ends 42m54s.
AUDIO: 52m59s: 20 Jul: BBC Newshour: Coronavirus: Oxford vaccine triggers immune response
Presenter: Tim Franks
Also in the programme: we hear from a doctor in Texas who’s been working for 123 days in his ICU in Houston, Texas...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w172x2ysnr6yl9q
no surprise, CNN also focuses on Texas & Florida, and has the same Dr. Joseph Varon from Houston:
20 Jul: CNN Transcripts: NEW DAY
(scroll down)
JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: Also overnight, 61,000 new cases of coronavirus in the United States. The death toll now tops 140,000 Americans.
More than 12,000 new cases were reported in Florida, where dozens of hospital ICUs are at capacity...
And the president, he’s bored with it. That is a remarkable quote in “The New York Times” this morning from a Republican political strategist.
This report says that some in the White House, including chief of staff Mark Meadows, want to avoid drawing attention to the pandemic, as if people won’t notice the tens of thousands dead and millions infected...
BERMAN: ...Joining us now, Dr. Jason Wilson. He’s the associate director of emergency medicine and an emergency room doctor at Tampa General Hospital. And DR. JOSEPH VARON, he’s the chief of staff at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston...
Dr. Wilson, I just want to start with you in Florida, for instance. You know, leaving the tests aside, when we look at the average daily deaths, the chart there, the graph is just rising and rising and rising. A very steep curve in the number of new confirmed deaths, the seven-day moving average. What are you seeing in your hospital?...
DR. JASON WILSON, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE, TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL: Sure, we’re seeing something that looks a little bit different than what we saw over the previous three months. Really starting in June, we started to see very large volumes of young people presenting to us for testing. And once we see that start to happen, we know what’s coming.
And so in June, we started seeing 200, 300 people a day coming to our hospital just to be tested, asymptomatic exposures. So we knew two to three weeks later we would see this lag of about 10 to 15 percent of that volume starting to be hospitalized.
And so then we started seeing three to four times the hospitalization rates that we were seeing in March, April, May, over that end part of June and now into July.
***Our case mortality rates had stayed very low here, because we had some lead time based off of New York City. We were able to prepare and able to share ICU resources across hospital systems, learn some of the medicine, as well, try to keep them from being intubated when appropriate.
But of course, as you start to lose capacity and lose the ability to create new capacity, you always worry about those case mortality rates, those deaths starting to rise.
CAMEROTA: Dr. Varon, that is really striking, to hear that it’s three to four times what they had in March. Because obviously, here in New York, that’s when we had — you know, we were overrun by the outbreak.
President Trump dismissed yesterday or over the weekend, the idea that young people get really sick or that young people are super-spreaders. So listen to how he described it...
DR. JOSEPH VARON, CHIEF OF STAFF, UNITED MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER, HOUSTON: Well, I mean, clearly, we have a lot of young people that come into us deadly. Not the sniffles. Deadly. These are people that are on the brink of death. So they’re very, very sick.
The fact that you are young, the fact that you are healthy does not, by any means, make you invincible. And that is something that we need to convey to your viewers.
I mean, if you are young, if you are healthy, that doesn’t protect you from — from corona. You are as likely as somebody else to get sick. So you should not use this as an excuse to, Hey, I’m going to go out; I’m not going to wear my mask, that kind of stuff.
BERMAN: And Dr. Wilson, if you can weigh in here, because we’ve been hearing from other doctors in Florida that recently, that the number of older patients coming in has begun to go up. This current wave — I hesitate to use the word “wave” — this current surge in the hospitals, yes, younger people were the leading edge, but now some older patients are starting to come in, as well.
WILSON: Sure, so older people are always more vulnerable to this, but I think, to Dr. Varon’s point, 40 percent of our patients in our critical care areas are under the age of 50. And so of those young super spreaders, as young people who come in, we expect anywhere between 5 to 10 percent of that volume, those same people to come back sicker five days later when we first see them, sort of in the pro- inflammatory phase, the cytokine release phase of this virus. They do get sick...
CAMEROTA: Dr. Varon, you say that you’re fighting two viruses at the moment: coronavirus and stupidity. And so tell us what you see when you walk out of your hospital doors and how frustrating it is.
VARON: Well, I mean, it’s really frustrating. Let me give you an example. A couple of days ago, it’s 2 a.m. in the morning. I’m getting out of the hospital after a very long day.
As I go in, I see one of these outdoor malls that is completely packed with cars, a lot of young people, you know, girls with miniskirts. I mean, there is like a party going on. Nobody’s wearing a mask. Lots of loud music.
And for me, that I have been working 123 consecutive days, nonstop, it is annoying, to say the least. Because I’m working very hard to save people and yet, I’m seeing this outside...
And the problems, as I — as we have discussed before, is that everybody is getting a different idea of what’s — what is OK and what is not OK. We are telling people different ideas. And nobody’s coming in with a concise, you should not do this, kind of situation.
BERMAN: Dr. Wilson, I’m a parent of two 13-year-old boys. Alisyn has school-aged kids, as well. There was a study out of South Korea. This is a backwards-looking study at the infections in South Korea among younger people. And what it found, looking at thousands of cases, was that the infection rate among kids, middle-school age and older, you know, 10 to 16 or so, was about equal to that of adults.
In other words, students passed the virus just as much as adults do, and children younger than 10, a much lower rate. But not zero. About half or 40 percent of the rate.
I was surprised to see this, based on some of the things we’ve been hearing in the United States over the last few weeks. What are the implications of this as we plan on opening schools?
WILSON: And that’s the big conversation right now in Hillsborough County. You know, we were supposed to go back to school on August 10. That’s been delayed now until at least August 24...
So far, what we’ve seen here, in this area, and it may be different in South Korea, we don’t know, but what we’ve seen here is we have not seen a lot of spread from kids to adults. We’re not seeing that too much yet.
We certainly see high rates right now. I think we saw some record- breaking rates over these past seven dates for our children, for their positivity rates, but again, very few of those have to be hospitalized, thank goodness. That’s one of the few bright spots in this virus. Our kids aren’t getting super sick...
But when we consider schools, we’ve got to take into account not just our kids, because we certainly don’t want them to get sick. And to Dr. Varon’s point, not all of them are going to do well. We are going to have some kids who get very sick if we have a lot of kids being infected.
But our workforce and our teachers, how do we go back to classrooms? How do we quarantine classrooms? How do we isolate when appropriate, and who do we isolate? These are all questions I’m not sure school districts had a chance to really unwind.
BERMAN: And the South Korea study does raise new questions...
http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2007/20/nday.01.html
who is making it political? FakeNewsMSM.
This is no surprise it’s getting closer to election day. So it’s time to make a well run Republican state look like the center of the worlds worst covid19 numbers.
I am wondering...
There are big political holes in all of this violence. The longer it goes on, the more they are blaming Trump.
Why is it not being stopped?
In older times, in movie theaters, when the cavalry would ride in, the movie goers would clap and celebrate.
Send in the cavalry!! and get the rats cleaned up!
When my brother-in-law died earlier this year after being on hospice care for an inoperable cancerous brain tumor... he was counted as a “presumptive Covid-19 death”. Tests were not widely available at that time so he was never tested.
RE: he was counted as a “presumptive Covid-19 death”. Tests were not widely available at that time so he was never tested
Sorry about the loss... but may I ask, if he never got tested, why not just write down that he died of his specific disease?
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