The hardest data

There is always a certain amount of slop in attribution of causes of death. Actually those annual influenza death rates that are talked about so much are estimates, because in ordinary times most people with respiratory infections aren ' t lab tested to confirm the pathogen. Death certificates might just say pneumonia. But enough tests are done to be able to extrapolate. Covid-19 is different in that people who present at the hospital with serious symptoms are tested, so a much higher proportion of deaths are laboratory confirmed. However, some states are only reporting laboratory confirmed deaths, and people who die at home are not usually tested and many of those deaths don ' t make it into the official counts. That ' s why every real expert believes the officially reported death toll is an underestimate.So here ' s what we know for sure.This is just the count of death certificates, it isn ' t looking at the diagnosis. But obviously  something has caused the death rate in New Jersey to suddenly shoot up to more than twice the norm for the past 4 years. This has happenedwiththe severe restrictions the state put in place in March.And it ' s not just deaths we should be worried about. It is now clear that many people, even those who don ' t have very severe disease in the first place, face extremely prolonged, debilitating convalescence and in many cases permanent organ damage. This disease is very nasty, even though most people who are exposed don ' t get severely sick, ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - Category: American Health Source Type: blogs