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04-18-2020 10:29 AM |
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Originally Posted by DianeM
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3700 deaths had their cause of death changed. 3700 in one day ! It was on several channels and news feeds. It’s a way for Cuomo to whine more for money when this is done. I also watched Cuomo’s broadcast where he said that while no covid tests were performed, someone who had a coronary would probably have caught Coronavirus anyway.
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I'd love to see a link to any report saying that Cuomo, as you claim you watched, said "someone who had a coronary would probably have caught Coronavirus anyway".
Here are Governor Cuomo's words that I can find
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The total losses, the total number of deaths number. The CDC changed guidelines on how they want information reported. They want deaths and then another category of probable deaths which is a new category that's done by the local departments of health or the coroner.
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Sounds exactly like what I wrote earlier. The CDC wants probable COVID deaths included as determined by physicians and coroners. These are cases where the professional attests that COVID while not proven was a likely factor in the patient's death. Nothing about he might have caught it, nothing about maybe he was thinking about COVID crossing the street and didn't look up to see the truck that hit him. Nothing about he had a heart attack but had no probable COVID at the time.
The actually number re-classified was not 3700 but was 3778. I do know one source that used the erroneous 3700 number. Here is NBC's explanation on 4/15/20
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The toll of COVID-19 has hit no city harder than New York, and official counts in the five boroughs might even be understated. While the city's health department listed the confirmed death toll at 6,589 by 1 p.m., the "probable" number of fatalities is at least 3,778 more — which would bring the staggering total to more than 10,000, according to data obtained by NBC News...
The department defines a "probable" victim as someone who had not tested positive, but whose death certificate lists that they were killed by COVID-19, the disease associated with coronavirus.
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