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New York City Backdates Thousands of Presumed COVID-19 Deaths
The Epoch Times ^ | 04/15/2020 | Zachary Steiber

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,

(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: chinavirusmortality; covid19; mortality; newyorkcity; nyc
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1 posted on 04/15/2020 8:03:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Cha-ching!!


2 posted on 04/15/2020 8:04:15 AM PDT by madison10 (Wash your hands & say your prayers cause Jesus & germs are everywhere)
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To: SeekAndFind

Translation: They made it up, but they really really think they were correct. Trust us, trust us.


3 posted on 04/15/2020 8:05:16 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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I wonder if they are charging for the vents sent to them


4 posted on 04/15/2020 8:05:44 AM PDT by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Rubber stamped deaths. Mo’ money mo’ money mo’ money


5 posted on 04/15/2020 8:06:30 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The fish wrap media promoted Obama's Benghazi lies in 2012.)
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To: SeekAndFind

This is mostly about money.

Doctors are great and noble and everything. But I think this is borderline fraud.


6 posted on 04/15/2020 8:07:37 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Are they getting paid per death?


7 posted on 04/15/2020 8:07:55 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sounds like fraud to me. Isn’t that illegal?


8 posted on 04/15/2020 8:08:23 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


9 posted on 04/15/2020 8:08:25 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: SeekAndFind

Is General Westmoreland in charge of the “body count”?


10 posted on 04/15/2020 8:08:29 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


11 posted on 04/15/2020 8:13:59 AM PDT by Lions Gate
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To: Texas Eagle

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.


12 posted on 04/15/2020 8:15:29 AM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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It takes money-grubbing to a new low


13 posted on 04/15/2020 8:21:01 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".)
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To: SeekAndFind

Gotta pump up those numbers! “Free” federal dollars and dictatorial control, depend on it!


14 posted on 04/15/2020 8:25:14 AM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


15 posted on 04/15/2020 8:50:28 AM PDT by BobbyBelle
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To: SeekAndFind

Hollywood accounting.


16 posted on 04/15/2020 8:53:24 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (With every passing day, I am a little bit gladder that Romney lost in 2012.)
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there were hundreds of people dying at home every day in recent weeks.

Of course they’re dying at home — that’s where everyone has been ordered to stay. Where else can they die?

17 posted on 04/15/2020 8:56:32 AM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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Of course they’re dying at home — that’s where everyone has been ordered to stay.

Not if they are dying. A call to 911 or trip to the hospital would be allowed.

18 posted on 04/15/2020 9:04:13 AM PDT by Kazan
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“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.

Big Bird is about as trustworthy as the Chinese government.

19 posted on 04/15/2020 9:05:17 AM PDT by Kazan
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Okay. People have always been dying at home, then. What’s the difference now?


20 posted on 04/15/2020 9:07:20 AM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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