POSTED AT 7:30 PM ON APRIL 25, 2020 BY NICK ARAMA
This is how Covid 19 deaths are officially counted and verified by the hospitals, are we stupid to still be in a lock down?
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker speaks at a state Capitol news conference Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019, in Springfield, Ill., as state Treasurer Michael Frerichs looks on. The Democratic Illinois state officials are offering $100 million in low-interest or interest-free loans to federal workers going without paychecks during a record 33-day government shutdown. (AP Photo/John O’Connor)
What counts as a death from the Wuhan coronavirus?
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 saying 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.”
“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.
She notes, for example, if a man 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 included money for hospitals for virus patients. So, it seems to pay to list someone as a virus patient.