Posted on 04/10/2020 4:46:00 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
Hundreds of people dying in their homes or on the street in New York City are not being including in the coronavirus death count even if they had symptoms; suggesting the city may be significantly under-counting its COVID-19 fatalities.
Data from the NYC fire department shows that 1,125 people died in their homes or on the street in the first five days of April alone, which is more than eight times the number of deaths recorded this time last year when when 131 people died.
The daily tally of residents who died at home with coronavirus-like symptoms exploded from 45 on March 20 to 241 on April 5, the data shows.
The fire department data is based on information collected during 911 calls involving cardiac or respiratory arrest with fever and cough; symptoms that are in line with severe coronavirus cases.
While those symptoms could also fit diseases such as influenza, the steep rise coincides with the surge in coronavirus cases and deaths in New York City.
Between March 20 and April 5, the number of coronavirus-like cases, including patients who survived, tripled from 94 to 322.
The percentage of calls in which paramedics could not save the person rose from 48 percent percent to 75 percent.
Paramedics have not been testing people for coronavirus if they die at home or on the street. It suggests that the soaring death toll from the virus could be much higher than currently reported.
The death toll in New York City increased by 518 on Thursday, bringing the total number of deaths to more than 4,700. The number of infections increased by 7,500 to bring the total cases to more than 87,000.
As New York City deals with the mounting coronavirus death toll and dwindling morgue space, the city has now shortened the
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
https://www.ecodibergamo.it/stories/bergamo-citta/coronavirus-the-real-death-tool-4500-victims-in-one-month-in-the-province-of_1347414_11/
[We compared the number of deaths over the first three months of this year with the average figure of the last three years, in order to verify the increase in mortality across Bergamo’s territory - explains Aldo Cristadoro, founder of InTwig and professor in Digital methods for social research at Bergamo University -. Our evaluation, carried out with great accuracy by means of the official data provided by each local administration, tells us that during the month of March more than 5.400 people have died, and approximately 4.500 of these are ascribable to coronavirus. One year ago, in March, the total deaths were almost 900]
Eco di Bergamo is a local paper serving Bergamo province’s 1.1m people:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Eco_di_Bergamo
The extras are the economic/social disruption body count.
I don't buy it.
The city gets more aid with Covid-19 deaths so why would they hide the numbers.
Are people falling over dead in the streets as they did in China
Sounds like the Fictitious horror stories coming from the Superdome in New Orleans
i live here.
Know a lot of folks.
Don’t believe it.
FAKE NEWS !!!
YIPPEE!! More British fearporn.
Oh for want of attribution...
How Many People Have Actually Died From Coronavirus in New York?
The official statistics paint a partial picture and may understate the death toll. Here’s why.
NYT, April 10, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/nyregion/new-york-coronavirus-death-count.html
In the first five days of April, 1,125 people were pronounced dead in their homes or on the street in New York City, more than eight times the deaths recorded during the same period in 2019, according to the Fire Department.
Many of these deaths were probably caused by Covid-19, but were not accounted for in the coronavirus tallies given by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo during his widely watched daily news conferences — statistics that are viewed as key measures of the impact of the outbreak.
On Thursday, Mr. Cuomo said 799 people in New York had died from coronavirus in a single 24-hour period — more than 33 an hour — bringing the state’s total to 7,067.
But epidemiologists, city officials and medical personnel say those numbers are likely to be far below the city’s actual death toll.
The data on deaths of people in their homes or on the street shows that the state’s statistics don’t tell the whole story. Here’s what we know:
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Normally, about 25 bodies a week are interred on the island, mostly for people
whose families can’t afford a funeral, or who go unclaimed by relatives. But
recently, burial operations have increased from one day a week to five days
a week, with around 24 burials each day, said Department of Correction
spokesman Jason Kersten.
The island may also be used for temporary interments should deaths surge
past the city’s morgue capacity. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
can store about 800 to 900 bodies, while about 4,000 can be stored in
refrigerated trucks dispatched to city hospitals.
Illegals?
OMG!
My head is beginning to spin.
Yesterday, there were numerous threads about deaths being over counted as corona virus, even though the person had end-of-life medical conditions.
Now, the media is trying to tell us the number of deaths are being under counted.
I guess the only saving grace is that one media hype story will cancel out the other media hype story.
No, they are dying in their apartments. They are not allowed out on the street much, please read above.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/nyregion/new-york-coronavirus-death-count.html
“In the first five days of April, 1,125 people were pronounced dead in their homes or on the street in New York City, more than eight times the deaths recorded during the same period in 2019, according to the Fire Department.”
I’m just posting stuff, not making any editorial comment of my own. This is New York, today, according to the NYT, which, believe them or not carry a lot of weight.
YIPPEE!! More British fearporn.
Great summary.
As reality is ripping the liars new ones 24/7.
They are coming out with these incredible fake news posing as news.
Please see 11.
Daily Mail. About as unreliable (yellow journalism) as you can get.
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