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Originally Posted by LiverpoolWalrus
There was/is controversy that FL (and other states) count any death in which the patient is suspected of having Covid as a Covid death, whether or not the patient’s blood was tested for the virus or other co-morbidities are present. If that’s true, I wonder if these numbers reflect that practice.
Edited to include this CDC link which sheds a little light on reporting cause of death, but to me is still rather vague. Apparently there is an assumption that a co-morbidity would not have resulted in death absent Covid, if I read it correctly.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/vsrg/vsrg03-508.pdf |
I do medical billing for a huge company and for many many hospitals. Sorry to say it is true, they put COVID diagnosis and just about every patient because if they have a slight fever, sniffle or cough they are considered COVID. It’s ridiculous and if I person goes and gets tested several times and they were tested positive each time they keep counting that. So a paranoid person will go get tested till it gets out of their system and it is counted as positive each time.