Hard to believe it would top traffic accidents.
Remember all those reports of people involved in motorcycle crashes, falling off of ladders and being shot and they all died of Covid?
When you call every unfortunate passing as COVID-19(84) then.....
Talked to a customer at a local gas station about 8 months back.
His uncle (RIP) had a stroke or maybe a heart attack. Poor guy.
Customer saw the death certificate regarding his uncle.
Cause of death? COVID-19(84).
WITH-COVID-19
Over a million babies were killed in abortions in our country. Were they listed in those results, and if not, why not?
And if you believe that...
(But Remdesivir might be up there...)
I personally watched 2 people DIE from COVID. The driver of a pickup was on his way back from getting tested and he had a Heart Attack and DIED right before he strayed into oncoming traffic at 60 plus and hit a Guy on a Harley HEAD ON!, who was on his way to get tested, they BOTH died of COVID!!!
Well, that’s exactly what was being done. They listed COVID as the cause of death, in one case at least, where a person died in a car crash. The post mortem swab came back positive I guess, so add it to the numbers!
This May I went to the ER for pancreatitis (very painful). Of course they did a blood draw and came back within 20 minutes to tell me I didn't have Covid. I told the RN, "WTF, I don't care about Covid. This is my second bout with pancreatitis within a year. You let lay on this gurney in awful pain to check for Covid?" Her response, "It's protocol."
I yelled at her that I don't care about Covid. Get me something for this pain NOW or the whole hospital will hear from this room! Interestingly, a MD came in shortly injected my IV with a pain killer. I asked what it was, he said Fentanyl. I mentioned the overdose deaths and he told me hospitals have been using it for years. Out like a light.
Sure you don't care, but had to have gall bladder removed for stones causing my pancreatitis. Guessing if I had died in surgery, Covid would have been written on the Death Certificate.
Nope, no shots for original virus, none for Delta, and none for Omnicron. The worse in this household was a minor cold throughout this past season. Runny nose, itchy eyes, some sneezing, and very minor malaise. No sore throat, no fever, no aches or pains, no breathing difficulties.
Covid is similar to influenza, and turned into a world-wide scam. The politicians freaked and shut down economies the world over. BTW, what happened to all the flu cases and deaths for those susceptible?
Sure, if you add in all the unrelated deaths that were blamed on COVID
“COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in the United States between March 2020 and October 2021,”
I call BS.
( 1,018,118 "U.S. Deaths" / 332,854,012 "U.S. Population" ) x 100 = 0.306 percent mortality rate over two and one half years.
Sources: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/ and https://www.census.gov/popclock/
From Shiels' NIH article: "During the 20-month period studied, COVID-19 accounted for 1 in 8 deaths (or 350,000 deaths) in the United States." Given "with" mingled statistically with "from" ("from being Birx' 6 percent estimate) and given the questionable taxonomic data collection, reporting and analysis, her summary of someone else's work (JAMA) doesn't jive with the above documented 0.306 percent mortality rate over two and one half years.
As a tidbit, Shiel's NIH cites Sheils's article in JAMA as she is lead author. The JAMA article includes: "Our analysis was limited by potential misclassification of the cause of death and incomplete death data for 2021."
In case one misses the point, "potential missclassification of the cause of death" seems a sturdy bit of methodolgy on which to publish "science." Political science, that is.
Fortunately the flu disappeared or it would have been a lot worse.
If a patient died of the flu, the hospital had ti eat the costs. But, if the same patient was listed as Covid, the gooberment paid big bucks. Follow the money.
Why do you think the annual flu all but disappeared the last 2 years?
Look back on how many died during a typical flu season, that is real close to the real number, mainly because that is what Covid really was, a flue season.
For people 18-45 years of age, the leading cause was drug overdoses.
Fentanyl overdoses become No. 1 cause of death among US adults, ages 18-45: ‘A national emergency’
More adults between 18 and 45 died of fentanyl overdoses in 2020 than COVID-19, motor vehicle accidents, cancer and suicide
https://www.foxnews.com/us/fentanyl-overdoses-leading-cause-death-adults
And that was only from fentanyl. In 2021, nearly 108,000 died from drug overdoses in general. Two-thirds of those deaths involved synthetic opioids like fentanyl.
Covid19 is a racist virus! (In California):
COVID pulls down Latino, Black, Asian life expectancy more than whites, study says!:
Saturday, July 9, 2022 | Sacramento, CA
Marissa Leshnov / CalMatters, By Jeanne Kuang, CalMatters
Racial and economic health disparities exposed by the pandemic have factored into a widening gap in Californians’ life expectancies, according to a study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Researchers found that between 2019 and 2021, the life expectancy for Latino Californians fell by almost six years — from 82.5 years to 76.8. That plunge is twice the average decline of about three years for all Californians and three times more than the decrease for white Californians of close to two years.
Prior to the pandemic, white Californians had a lower life expectancy than Latinos of 80.5 years. In 2021 the expected life span of whites had decreased to 78.6 years.
Life expectancy is a hypothetical measure of how long those born in a specific year will live based on that year’s mortality rates. It is not a measure of actual life spans, but researchers use it to understand loss of life within various populations, according to the California Policy Lab.
It decreased by nearly four years for Black Californians, from 74.8 years to 71, and by three years for Asian Californians, from 86.6 years to 83.5, the study says.
“Our findings are another troubling sign of how the pandemic’s impact was not felt evenly across all communities,” said Till von Wachter, a UCLA economics professor and California Policy Lab faculty director who is one of the report’s co-authors.
Increased risks of exposure:
The researchers wrote that the disproportionately large decreases in life expectancy among Latino and Black populations reflect their greater exposure to COVID-19 infection, reflected in higher hospitalization and death rates.
Latino and Black people were more likely to work frontline jobs and rely on transportation and housing that increased the risks of exposure, researchers said, and they were more likely to encounter barriers to healthcare. They also were likely to have medical conditions and socioeconomic challenges that jeopardized their health.
The study also showed a life expectancy gap increased between the rich and the poor.
Before the pandemic, researchers found, residents in the state’s poorest 1% of census tracts could be expected to live to nearly 76 years, about 11.5 fewer years than those in the richest 1% of tracts. In 2021 that gap grew to 15.5 fewer years of life.
Disparities in life expectancy by neighborhood and income have been well-documented nationwide. The researchers of the new study believe it is the first study to find this gap worsened during the pandemic.
State data show Latinos experiencing COVID cases and deaths at a rate far exceeding their 38% share of the population. Latinos made up 46% of COVID cases and 43% of deaths overall, according to the state’s COVID dashboard.
Black people, who make up 6% of the population, accounted for 5% of cases but 7% of deaths.
Setting priorities:
The researchers did not offer policy recommendations but noted that they studied life expectancy based on incomes of neighborhoods. Household and geographic factors, such as local job opportunities, the quality of schools and environmental conditions, shape health disparities, they said.
“Documenting area-based health disparities can help inform policy development and set priorities for targeting resources and investments to marginalized communities,” they wrote.
Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers recently passed a major expansion of the state’s health safety net, budgeting funds to open Medi-Cal coverage to all income-eligible undocumented immigrants regardless of age. Past expansions included immigrants who were young adults or older than 55.