Posted on 03/10/2022 6:10:29 PM PST by massmike
When state public health officials publish Monday's report about the latest COVID-19 impacts on Massachusetts, the cumulative death toll through two years of the pandemic will suddenly stand about 15% lower.
The Baker administration will start using a new public health surveillance definition next week, narrowing the window of time between a confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis and death required for the fatality to get attributed to the highly infectious virus.
Saying the Bay State's earlier methodology led to a "significant overcount of deaths," officials said Thursday they will adopt a new system recommended by the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists.
And in a step that could reshape understanding of the pandemic's impact on Massachusetts, the administration will apply the new method retroactively, resulting in 4,081 deaths once linked to the virus being recategorized as stemming from other causes and roughly 400 others newly being labeled as COVID-19 deaths.
For the duration of the pandemic, state officials have deemed a fatality COVID-related if it met at least one of three criteria: if a case investigation determined the virus "caused" or "contributed" to the death, if the death certificate listed COVID-19 or an "equivalent term" as the cause, or if state public health surveillance linked a confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis to a Bay Stater's death.
The first two measures remain unchanged since the earliest days of the crisis, but the third has already been updated once and is set to evolve again on Monday.
From March 2020 to March 2021, DPH counted the death of any person who had previously tested positive for COVID-19 as a COVID-related death, regardless of how much time elapsed between those two events.
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Isn’t that special?
Trump president: Die in a motorcycle crash=covid death
400k deaths = BLOOD ON HIS HANDS!!!
Biden president: we need to be more careful with the numbers
575K deaths = time to get over Covid.
Only question is what huge event will coincidentally happen when we hit 1 million deaths to make it not make as much news.
Surprise! Once again, government information was a lies.
the cases, hospitalizations, and deaths were intentionally overstated to drive the panic and force the vaccine on everyone
oopsy! we made a mistake
We’ve all been duped from dying “with” or “of” Covid. Deaths have been grossly over exaggerated.
Nuclear war?
And to begin to revive the numbers down. This was all too predictable.
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I’d bet it is more than 50% overstated….it was all about the money….this is just using a number that won’t blow the lid off the whole scheme….
Not surprised, not one bit.
I “came of age” in terms of political awareness during the Watergate hearings and the fall of Saigon.
I “came of age” in terms of voter eligibility shortly before Three Mile Island.
My generation learned one simple truth: Government and their “experts” LIE.
I think a national debt north of $30 T is blowing the lid off the whole thing. And the I-did-that price inflation is still blowing.
Don’t forget the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$4
Get a load of this follow the money game.
SXSW, the huge mega $$$$$ South by Southwest, music festival in Austin, TX begins tomorrow. It hasn’t brought in the millions the past couple years so they’re playing the numbers game with covid cases to fool the tourists and artists.
A few days ago, Travis Co. (where Austin is located) claimed there had been 0 cases the previous 7 days. The metro county just below, headed toward San Antonio, claimed 11 cases over the previous 7 days. LIARS from Liarsville.
Apparently, they got caught as the numbers are back up to around 400 for each county. Snort, they’re still lying because small rural commuter counties around them have many more cases per population.
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