“iows, you come in with esophageal varies and test positive for covig, and then you bleed to death from the varices...its the covig that killed you ...NOT!”
Well, they are doing the opposite in some places as well.
But this isn’t hockey, so we can’t credit assists. If you wouldn’t be dead but for having CCP-19, then that’s what killed you in my book. no matter how old or how many underlying conditions.
They don’t generally test you for CCP-19 unless you are showing symptoms for it or have had contact with a known case. If you turn yellow and die from liver failure, they wouldn’t necessarily test you for CCP-19 since jaundice would be a clear indication of too many tequilas. I suspect the numbers either way aren’t outrageously distorting the stats.
In Italy right now, the Chinese (medical assistance they sent) are reattributing the deaths to what ever convenient underlying condition they can. In Germany they’ve been doing that all along. Same in China and Iran. But most of those people would still be around if not for CCP-19. And in some of those places the people that really do die from strokes or heart attacks or even car wrecks would not necessarily have died if the hospitals were not clogged with CCP-19 cases.
all of our guesses, stats, anecdotes,stories,graphs,lists, etc are all dependent on uniform reporting from all entities be that good bad or indifferent....