Re:35% of excess deaths from pandemic not caused by Covid-19
by jeffbee on Friday July 10, 2020 @10:37AM
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I wonder how officials record deaths where the person was just found dead. Do they try to figure out the causes of death? It was reported in New York City that the rate at which firefighters and paramedics were finding dead people at home had increased by 10x over normal rates. They were finding 200 or more people daily.
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Re:35% of excess deaths from pandemic not caused by Covid-19
by danans on Friday July 10, 2020 @11:08AM
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Unfortunately, in many places tests were not being performed as part of the autopsy, so to understand how many of those were Covid19 deaths, researchers will have to use a model derived from known cases and causes of death.