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PatJ
Apr 19, 2020Explorer II
This forum is probably the most geographically and demographically diverse forum I read (not enough free time to read all I wish I could.) It has been very interesting to hear all the different opinions and how they vary from place to place.
One thing that bothers me about "the numbers" is how if you test COVID positive, and you die, you are counted as a COVID death in USA but not in other countries. I think this makes "the numbers" much less valuable. In US, COVID is reportable just like Aids, so when you test positive for it the hospital (or whoever tested you) has to report it to the local health department. The local health department then keeps track of the totals and that's what makes its way to the news.
In the USA if you are a COVID positive healthy 25 year old gymnast with no symptoms, and were tested for COVID because of where you work, and you get hit by a bus crossing the street on your morning jog, you are counted as a COVID death.
In the USA if you are an 84 year old retired coal miner that smoked non-filter lucky strike for 70 years, installed steam pipe insulation in a shipyard during the war, and you contracted COVID while in hospice with stage 4 lung cancer, when you die you are counted as a COVID death.
I have tried to research this to see if it applies everywhere in US, and hopefully its not correct, but as far as I am able to research in the USA if you tested positive for COVID and die of literally anything, you go into the tally for COVID positive death regardless of what the coroner puts on your certificate.
One thing that bothers me about "the numbers" is how if you test COVID positive, and you die, you are counted as a COVID death in USA but not in other countries. I think this makes "the numbers" much less valuable. In US, COVID is reportable just like Aids, so when you test positive for it the hospital (or whoever tested you) has to report it to the local health department. The local health department then keeps track of the totals and that's what makes its way to the news.
In the USA if you are a COVID positive healthy 25 year old gymnast with no symptoms, and were tested for COVID because of where you work, and you get hit by a bus crossing the street on your morning jog, you are counted as a COVID death.
In the USA if you are an 84 year old retired coal miner that smoked non-filter lucky strike for 70 years, installed steam pipe insulation in a shipyard during the war, and you contracted COVID while in hospice with stage 4 lung cancer, when you die you are counted as a COVID death.
I have tried to research this to see if it applies everywhere in US, and hopefully its not correct, but as far as I am able to research in the USA if you tested positive for COVID and die of literally anything, you go into the tally for COVID positive death regardless of what the coroner puts on your certificate.
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