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2020-08-06 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
CDC Director Tells Reporter There's a "Possibility" Hospitals Are Over-Counting COVID-19 Deaths
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Posted by Besoeker 2020-08-06 02:14|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 By how much? Is it a question of hiding a needle in a haystack, or putting a straw in a box of needles?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-08-06 02:29||   2020-08-06 02:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Isn't some of this overcounting based on CDC's very own guidance?
Posted by Clem 2020-08-06 06:33||   2020-08-06 06:33|| Front Page Top

#3 And water is still wet.
Posted by AlanC 2020-08-06 08:01||   2020-08-06 08:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Queue the Captain Obvious pic.
Posted by Warthog 2020-08-06 10:03||   2020-08-06 10:03|| Front Page Top

#5 And I understand the hospitals get mo' munny for every case of Chinese Plague. Gee, what could possibly go wrong?
Posted by gorb 2020-08-06 10:12||   2020-08-06 10:12|| Front Page Top

#6 CDC has four columns of COVID numbers. They do not seem to add up. Obviously, the following footnotes (3, 4, and 5) will clear it all up:

3Countsof deaths involving pneumonia include pneumonia deaths that aso involve COVID-19 and exclude pneumonia deaths involving influenza.

4Counts of deaths involving influenza include deaths with pneumonia or COVID-19 also listed as a cause of death.

5Deaths with confirmed or presumed COVID-19, pneumonia, or influenza, coded to ICD–10 codes U07.1 or J09–J18.9.


Aren't you glad they explained it for us?
Posted by Bobby 2020-08-06 17:10||   2020-08-06 17:10|| Front Page Top

#7 As a physician we make our best assessment as to what we believe the primary cause of death was, so don't drink the hand sanitizer.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-08-06 17:39||   2020-08-06 17:39|| Front Page Top

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