Posted on 04/15/2020 8:11:32 AM PDT by Enlightened1
New York City added nearly 4,000 people who never tested positive for the coronavirus to its death toll Tuesday, bringing coronavirus-related deaths in the city to around 10,000 people.
The city decided to add 3,700 people to its death tolls, who they “presumed” to have died from the virus, according to a report from The New York Times. The additions increased the death toll in the U.S. by 17%, according to the Times report, and included people who were suffering from symptoms of the virus, such as intense coughing and a fever.
The report stated that Democratic New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio decided over the weekend to change the way the city is counting deaths.
“In the heat of battle, our primary focus has been on saving lives,” de Blasio press secretary Freddi Goldstein told the Times.“As soon as the issue was raised, the mayor immediately moved to release the data.”
The Times report added that health officials have had difficulty counting the exact number of deaths, because of the demographics who have been hit the hardest by the virus.
“Public health officials say that counting the dead from a pandemic disease like Covid-19 presents difficulties because many of those who die are older or suffering from other serious health conditions,” they wrote. “And the full effects of the outbreak on mortality in New York City, and around the country, could take many more months to study and understand.”
New York City is not the only city in the U.S. to include presumptive coronavirus deaths in their total. Several health departments in Ohio announced last week that they were going to begin including people who they “suspected” of having the virus.
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Rigged....
Usually there are around 25 at home deaths per day in NYC.
Recently there have been about 200 per day.
Wow, NY politicians should be voted out for their inept and slow reaction. Total failure of their state.
They dealers, they be selling CaronaCrack.
Letitia done overdose on some Chinese cray cray.
Another pandemic death in the big apple.
"New York City is not the only city in the U.S. to include presumptive coronavirus deaths in their total. Several health departments in Ohio announced last week that they were going to begin including people who they “suspected” of having the virus."
So they are doing it all over the country and here is what Fauci had to say about it,
"Dr. Anthony Fauci dismissed concerns last week over inflated coronavirus death counts as a “conspiracy theory.” "
I wonder how many car accident deaths and suicides are now officially COVID-19?
None
Follow the money.
You think not huh? How long before they conclude someone who committed suicide because of the isolation is a victim of the virus. Because after all no virus no isolation, right?
OD on heroin:
Covid 19
Heart attack:
yup covid 19
lung cancer from smoking for 50+ years
covid 19
colon cancer
covid 19
So we don’t know how many people have it and we don’t know how many are dying from it. Sounds like a plan.
Typical democrats... Making it up as they go. Why not count all the deaths in NY City this year as Corona Chinese Italian Covid-19 flu deaths? That works even better.
Trump should cut off all federal funds to NY City until they get their act together and come up with the ‘real’ number of deaths... Not numbers made up out of whole cloth.
Democrats and Deep Staters love to pad the numbers, especially votes...
I guess they weren’t padding them enough using CDC guidelines, “If you THINK the coronavirus MIGHT have been a contributing factor...” It’s now, “If you’ve heard of the coronavirus or might know someone who has...”
Ka-Ching. NY gets the US taxpayers to pay the medical bills for all coronavirus victims, so of course, every death will be a virus claim to Medicare.
On Fox Business’s Stuart Varney program this morning there was a discussion about the economic impact of the shutdown on the economy. There was a general consensus that if the shutdown continues past May 1 the economy will be in a severe depression from which recovery will be very lengthy.
Padding the death count significantly will definitely raise the chorus of those who want to keep the economy shutdown indefinitely.
At $10,000 bounty each, that’s a cool $40MM for more stuff!
Haha!
Exactly!
So we are going to destroy the U.S. economy on something we do not know how many people have it, and we do not know how many people are dying from it.
Medicare fraud on steroids.
Hospitals sweeping every indigent case they can find onto the COVID-19 rolls to get paid.
William Barr, pick-up the white courtesy phone...
Corona, Corona over hyped and added to for effect.
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