jones wrote:
Anzac wrote:
Was reading a report from Italy that are inflated because of the way the deaths are being recorded, but the medical/health system is too overrun to determine cause of death more accurately even though they know it's not right. Apparently it is something like if anyone dies who was admitted and thought to have possibly had the virus is counted as a virus related death, and/or anyone admitted to one of the hospitals that is dealing with the virus who dies is automatically included as a virus related death.
This sounds like a load of bollocks, why would they even do that. Share the links please
They are not taking into consideration any pre-existing medical conditions.
Nor should they. If someone has end stage cancer and is shot during a robbery I'm pretty sure the coroner won't care the victim was ill either.
Getting fucking tired of being told being told things are a load of bollocks and/or being accused of making shit up - not just this but also in relation to AFC & AW, DD, PHW & Co.
I read it over the w/end but managed to find the article and more
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/have-many-coronavirus-patients-died-italy/
[size=large][font=Austin News Text Roman,Georgia,Times,serif]But Prof Ricciardi added that Italy’s death rate may also appear high because of how doctors record fatalities.
“The way in which we code deaths in our country is very generous in the sense that all the people who die in hospitals with the coronavirus are deemed to be dying of the coronavirus.
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[size=large][font=Austin News Text Roman,Georgia,Times,serif]“On re-evaluation by the National Institute of Health, only 12 per cent of death certificates have shown a direct causality from coronavirus, while 88 per cent of patients who have died have at least one pre-morbidity - many had two or three,” he says. [/font][/size]
[size=large][font=Austin News Text Roman,Georgia,Times,serif]This does not mean that Covid-19 did not contribute to a patient's death, rather it demonstrates that Italy's fatality toll has surged as a large proportion of patients have underlying health conditions. Experts have also warned against making direct comparisons between countries due to discrepancies in testing.[/font][/size]
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/italy-coronavirus-fatality-rate-high-200323114405536.html
[size=medium]But there may be several reasons for Italy's alarming mortality rate.[/size]
[size=medium]"The numbers we have are not representative of the entire infected population," said Massimo Galli, head of the infectious disease unit at Sacco Hospital in Milan, the main city in the worst-hit region of Lombardy where 68 percent of the total national fatalities have been reported.[/size]
[size=medium]Galli explained that as the emergency situation rapidly deteriorated over the past month, Italy focused its testing only on people showing severe symptoms in areas with high epidemic intensity - the result, experts say, is that the currently available numbers produce a statistical artefact, a distortion.[/size]
[size=medium]"This causes an increase in the fatality rate because it is based on the most severe cases and not on the totality of those infected," Galli said.[/size]
