What counts as a death from the Wuhan corona virus in Illinois
Posted by Riverbender on April 25, 2020, 7:19 pm
One would think someone who died from the virus, right? That would be logical.
But not so much.
It appears to depend on where you are. So for example, let’s hear from the folks in Illinois what they are counting as a “COVID” death.
Here’s Illinois’ Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike says people are listed as a coronavirus death even if they died of alternative causes. “Even if you died of a clear alternate cause but you had COVID at the same time it’s still listed as a COVID death.”
MRCTV.org ✔ @mrctv "Even if you died of a clear alternate cause but you had COVID at the same time it's still listed as a COVID death."
Illinois' Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike says people are listed as a coronavirus death even if they died of alternative causes.
100 11:01 AM - Apr 25, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy 112 people are talking about this She notes for example was in a hospice and was given weeks to live and happened to catch it, but die from the underlying condition, he would be counted as a “COVID” death.
There are also reports that the new bill that included money for hospitals for virus patients. So it seems to pay to list someone as a virus patient.
Barron's ✔ @barronsonline · Mar 26, 2020 Replying to @barronsonline • Health-care: The bill creates a $100 billion fund for grants to health-care providers to help with expenses or lost revenues attributable to Covid-19, and includes $27 billion for a fund meant to go toward developing and purchasing Covid-19 vaccines and countermeasures.
Barron's ✔ @barronsonline The package will also temporarily lift the automatic 2% Medicare payment cuts imposed by what is known as federal sequestration, and will increase pay for hospitals treating Medicare patients with Covid-19 by 20%.
118 2:29 PM - Mar 26, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy 34 people are talking about this As my colleague Streiff reported, in New York it was even worse. They threw in 3700 cases as virus deaths because they were “presumed” to have the virus.
So basically they’re throwing in anything that could possibly be related, even if it isn’t confirmed and even if it didn’t actually cause the death.
Question: if you are talking on the phone with someone that previously tested positive for the virus and you get ran over by a car later that night, is that a Covid related death????
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