Here's something plenty of people have been wondering about
:
Is the number of COVID-19 deaths artificially elevated because it's being promiscuously blamed for all kinds of deaths?
As with everything related to this virus, the answer is murky.
Alex Berenson, the voice of reason on Twitter against Team Apocalypse, solicited answers to this question among medical professionals.
A physician who's practiced in West Palm Beach for 31 years and signed hundreds of death certificates replied:
"I believe that doctors are using death by COVID-19 as a convenient diagnosis when they don't really know what caused their death. Unless someone has tested + for the virus and had symptoms and died there is no way to attribute their death to COVID-19."
Another physician, taking the opposite view, wrote:
"There is a significant amount of people who are starting to believe that Covid deaths are being falsified. This cannot be further from the truth.... There's also the myth that people are dying with Covid and not of Covid. A terminally ill cancer patient who dies of the flu is a flu death and that is how it has been coded for years. It's no different with Covid."
Still another physician says that doctors are
"definitely erring on the side of coding everything COVID that presents with those symptoms.... This is going to result in real problems doing research on the disease. We need accurate death counts and accurate co-morbidity and pre-existing condition studies to understand the disease."
The key questions we are trying to answer regarding the virus, he concludes, are "harder to answer if you have a bunch of false data included in the set."
With good guys on both sides of this issue it's hard to know what to think.
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