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Originally Posted by GoodLife
According to Prof Walter Ricciardi, scientific adviser to Italy’s minister of Health
Prof Ricciardi added that Italy’s death rate may also appear high because of how doctors record fatalities.
“The way in which we code deaths in our country is very generous in the sense that all the people who die in hospitals with the coronavirus are deemed to be dying of the coronavirus.
“On re-evaluation by the National Institute of Health, only 12 per cent of death certificates have shown a direct causality from coronavirus, while 88 per cent of patients who have died have at least one pre-morbi
Why have so many coronavirus patients died in Italy? |
I personally think that is better than in this country, where testing is hardly being done. When some die, they are being marked as having died from the flu or pneumonia. I have no faith in the stating of our actual numbers, and now they’re saying they will probably slow down testing in LA and NYC. What we have learned from other countries, is that testing helps with eradicating this disease. It helps find out who might have been contaminated from exposure to this problem. And we’re going the other way with our strategy?