Posted on 04/15/2020 8:03:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
New York City included thousands of deaths, some of which happened happened weeks ago, in its updated COVID-19 death count on Tuesday.
The newly counted deaths are presumed to be caused by COVID-19 because doctors were confident enough to list the disease or “an equivalent” on the patients’ death certificates despite the diagnosis not being confirmed by laboratory tests.
Officials added 3,778 “probable” deaths to the COVID-19 count (pdf), taking a number that would have been 6,589 to over 10,000.
The shift came after fire officials said there were hundreds of people dying at home every day in recent weeks.
Most of the newly counted deaths happened in emergency rooms or hospitals, while another 825 took place at home and 673 transpired at nursing homes, long-term care facilities, or hospices.
“We thought it was very important to portray this larger reality as more and more information was coming in,” New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters at a press conference on Wednesday.
“We want to make sure that every New Yorker is counted that has been taken from this vicious virus,” added Health Commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot.
Barbot told reporters that it would take officials “a fair amount of time to tease out” what happened with the probable cases, “if we’re ever able to do that.”
“What we won’t have is severity of underlying illness etc.,” she said.
New York state officials reported 671 new deaths on April 14, taking the statewide count to 10,834. New York City’s revised death toll is now near that total.
New York City’s Health Department said it will now count any fatalities deemed as likely being caused by COVID-19 as a death caused by the new disease, which is caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus,
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Cha-ching!!
Translation: They made it up, but they really really think they were correct. Trust us, trust us.
I wonder if they are charging for the vents sent to them
Rubber stamped deaths. Mo’ money mo’ money mo’ money
This is mostly about money.
Doctors are great and noble and everything. But I think this is borderline fraud.
Are they getting paid per death?
Sounds like fraud to me. Isn’t that illegal?
How far back in time? If before January then a large percentage of the US population might have caught it and recovered from it and the lockdown was not necessary.
Is General Westmoreland in charge of the “body count”?
Shutting down the economy is stupid without knowing the FATALITIES AS A PERCENTAGE OF THE INFECTION RATE.
We need more ANTIBODY STUDIES ASAP!!!
A 1000 person German antibody study by the University of Bonn resulted in a death rate of those infected at 0.37% and a CV infection rate at 15%. The Diamond Princess had an infection rate of 17%.
CV appears to be MORE CONTAGIOUS and LESS LETHAL than we thought.
If this is correct, the US economy should be reopened NOW, all schools reopened, protect the elderly with preexisting conditions and stop this MEDIA DRIVEN PANIC & NONSENSE.
Flat payment per bed in the bailout
All uninsured Corona care paid by Trumps order
Added money for high load
So yeah every patient generates tons of revenue even the dead.
So they are no retroactively upping the “patient” count.
Tax something get less. Subsidize something get more. Immutable laws of behavior.
It takes money-grubbing to a new low
Gotta pump up those numbers! “Free” federal dollars and dictatorial control, depend on it!
The US hasn’t managed to test 1% of the population. If you test all of the dead there won’t be enough tests for the people that can be saved, 3,105,866 have been tested as of yesterday. There’s no way to know the true numbers except to count the dead.
Hollywood accounting.
Of course they’re dying at home — that’s where everyone has been ordered to stay. Where else can they die?
Not if they are dying. A call to 911 or trip to the hospital would be allowed.
Big Bird is about as trustworthy as the Chinese government.
Okay. People have always been dying at home, then. What’s the difference now?
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