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Originally Posted by Aloha1
According to the CDC ( which has not walked this back) , about 6600 people have actually died FROM Sars Cov2. The 207,000 number comes from death stats which list people who died WITH covid19, not from it. Do some data digging and look at the change in deaths from heart attacks, pneumonia , flu, etc.from 2019 to now. They are all down because hospitals are coding these patients as having covid 19 regardless of when or how they got it or whether it was even a factor in their death.
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That is correct, and not wrong for several reasons:
1 - hospitals don't make up the report requirements, the states and federal government does.
So stop blaming hospitals
2 - medical records have a field for cause of death. The clinical cause of death may not have the source for the cause known. With limited testing in the beginning of the pandemic, there was no way to test for covid, but the clinical observed signs pointed to covid sars 2. but at the same time, there were strokes which killed people, and there was no way to know if covid caused the stroke or not. Still now, there are some clear cut patients who didn't die of covid, but were treated with ppe because they had covid, and were reimbursed for treating that patient, regardless of the cause of death being covid or not.
3 - governments reimbursed hospitals for covid patients as having covid patients required more expense for ppe. If the government didn't reimburse for the number of covid patients, hospitals would be bankrupt, or your insurance company would raise everyones' rates astronomically. So be thankful that the government reimbursed hospitals for the extra protection needed based on the number of covid patients treated.
4 - don't assume that the medical field is all knowing at the beginning of something new. The medical field of today has benefited from years of research and trials and testing. For something new, such as a vaccine, to be safe and effective, years of testing will be needed, but in the hospital with something new such as this, they will start with something they know as presented, and treat from there, and learn from failures.
Most hospitals care, want great outcomes, and being run and manned by humans, will make mistakes. But you better believe that we have much better health care system than most of the world, but the rest of the world has caught up from our willingness to educate them in our universities, and research in our universities. Many unseen parts of the medical field have worked together in this pandemic, such that the treatments and testing today have been developed in record time, and now are more sensitive than ever.
So you can be critical of health care all you want and reporting from your own little chair, but you will be thankful if you ever have to use the medical services which continue to be perfected and they don't go bankrupt when you might need it.
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