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1/ As you sit home watching #COVID death counts spiral, please know the official @CDCgov guidance for coding COVID-related deaths is as follows: any death where the disease “caused or is *assumed* to have caused or *contributed to* death.” Confirmed lab tests are not required...pic.twitter.com/H4D6mcti3R
2/ And, btw, other possibly relevant factors, like, oh, COPD, are considered secondary. The rules “are expected to result in COVID-19 being the underlying cause more often than not.” https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/coronavirus/Alert-2-New-ICD-code-introduced-for-COVID-19-deaths.pdf …
Yup. I do believe COVID is serious but the current policy is akin to killing a swarm of flies in various locations by dropping a bunch of B61 tactical nuclear weapons nationwide. It'll kill a lot of the flies but also cause collateral damage. A more rational approach is needed.
That's bc it's quite likely a manufactured crisis.
Here is the CDC’s official numbers for just the regular flu this year...https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm …
Does the media not look at these numbers...
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