Just like that, CDC reduces its #Coronavirus death count to 37,000. That’s nearly HALF the total they were peddling. Did 30,000 people spring back to life like Lazarus? No, this seems a “gaffe”—defined as a case of the CDC accidentally telling the truth https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm …
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Hospitals are monetarily incentivized to add
#COVID19 diagnosis to hospitalized patients. Then when hospitals can consider “presumed” COVID cases, you begin to wonder..Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I am looking at the numbers now: * COVID-19: 37,308 * Pneumonia+COVID: 16,564 2/1/2020 to 4/25/2020
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But read, all the text, it clearly explains a delay in processing by 4-8 weeks. I think this thing is overblown. But the all need to make sure we know what we are talking about, or else we sound like fools.
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37K is the confirmed death total 64K is the 'confirmed+probable' death total. The fake news is any reporting that uses the 64K statistic as the confirmed death total.
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Nonsense. The reason it's 37k is because it's the numbers that were reported to the CDC as of April 25, with 1-2 week average lag at that time in reporting. Learn to read.
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It’s not fake news. It’s administrative reporting lag. The report’s first or second footnote states such. The numbers will normalize up based on death certificate validation.
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