Here is what they count as covid deaths.
A coroner in Colorado is sounding the alarm over how deaths in her county are being counted and attributed to Wuhan coronavirus.
“The coroner, Brenda Bock, says two of their five deaths related to COVID-19 were people who died of gunshot wounds,” CBS News Denver reports. “Bock says because they tested positive for COVID-19 within the past 30 days, they were classified as ‘deaths among cases.’”
Excess Deaths have always been the solution to with vs of. But regardless of that, the absolute numbers matter a great deal less than trends, and as long as criteria are constant, you will get meaningful information from the trend.
Useful to note that patients being admitted for Covid, not for car accident, only get admitted based on the VA study that specifies a blood oxygen level. People who come to the ER desperate to get tested, and get tested, and are positive, are not admitted unless that number is met.
Gunshots and car accidents corrupt data, but it’s pretty rare. Those events die quickly, probably before the PCR test results are returned.
I would suggest as wrong as they are, they should not be changed. Those curves on the graphs need to mean something. If you go changing criteria, you won’t have a valid measure of what measures taken are working or not.
Again, go spend some time with Excess Deaths. They are ALL CAUSES. They are insulated from this attribution stuff.