Posted on Jan 25, 2023
Overcounting Covid: “You can run but you can’t hide from the truth”
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Julie Hartman: Dr. Leana Wen, who is a CNN medical analyst and a Washington Post columnist, is under fire for a column that she published last Friday in which she claimed that doctors are “overcounting covid deaths and hospitalizations.”
So Dr. Wen was analyzing CDC data and she also pulled material from various hospital records and talked with many epidemiologists and other doctors, and she speculated in her article that the medical community is overcounting covid deaths by 30%. And she says that the reason for this is that they’re counting people who died with covid as people who died from covid.
And she said in her article, and it’s an excellent point, how important it is that we be precise about this information so that Americans are properly informed about their true risk of hospitalization and death as a result of this virus.
So Dr. Wen was analyzing CDC data and she also pulled material from various hospital records and talked with many epidemiologists and other doctors, and she speculated in her article that the medical community is overcounting covid deaths by 30%. And she says that the reason for this is that they’re counting people who died with covid as people who died from covid.
And she said in her article, and it’s an excellent point, how important it is that we be precise about this information so that Americans are properly informed about their true risk of hospitalization and death as a result of this virus.
Overcounting Covid: “You can run but you can’t hide from the truth”
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Hubby and I have been saying this all along...just because you test positive for COVID doesn't mean that is the cause of death
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COL Randall C.
I long have had an issue about mortality numbers for COVID when I discovered that the United States counts COVID deaths very much like the medical community does for the surgical mortality rate.
The post-op surgery mortality rate is defined as anyone that has died within 30 days of release from the hospital, regardless of the cause. If you have heart surgery and get hit by a bus while walking across the street three weeks after your hospital stay, you're counted in the post-op rate.
Same with COVID. The numbers were often viewed through the same lens. If you die, regardless of the cause, and are COVID positive, then you are counted in the COVID death statistics.
I'm with Dr. Wen on the importance of being precise about the information because otherwise it just becomes another philosophical talking point where facts don't mean as much as an opinion does.
The post-op surgery mortality rate is defined as anyone that has died within 30 days of release from the hospital, regardless of the cause. If you have heart surgery and get hit by a bus while walking across the street three weeks after your hospital stay, you're counted in the post-op rate.
Same with COVID. The numbers were often viewed through the same lens. If you die, regardless of the cause, and are COVID positive, then you are counted in the COVID death statistics.
I'm with Dr. Wen on the importance of being precise about the information because otherwise it just becomes another philosophical talking point where facts don't mean as much as an opinion does.
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Wait, wait ... WAIT!
Didn't the media, twitter (preElon), FB, etc... two years ago cover all that up?
Didn't the media, twitter (preElon), FB, etc... two years ago cover all that up?
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