{"id":10644,"date":"2021-07-06T14:02:54","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T19:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/?p=10644"},"modified":"2021-07-06T14:02:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T19:02:54","slug":"court-rules-only-152-died-of-covid-19-in-portugal-not-17000-naturalnews-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/court-rules-only-152-died-of-covid-19-in-portugal-not-17000-naturalnews-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Court rules only 152 died of COVID-19 in Portugal, not 17,000 \u2013 NaturalNews.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Source: Court rules only 152 died of COVID-19 in Portugal, not 17,000 \u2013 NaturalNews.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

(Natural News<\/a>) Following a citizen\u2019s petition, the Administrative Court of the Circle of Lisbon provided verified COVID-19 data\u00a0showing that\u00a0only 152 patients died from the disease from January 2020 to April 2021, not 17,000<\/a>\u00a0as Portuguese authorities claim.\u00a0The remaining deaths were\u00a0attributed to various causes.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, some experts remain skeptical about whether even those 152 deaths are actually due to COVID-19. In a recent article on his blog, Andre Dias, a lung disease specialist from the\u00a0University of Tromso \u2013 The Arctic University of Norway<\/em><\/a>, said the ruling\u2019s reference to 152 death certificates being issued \u201cunder Justice Ministry supervision\u201d is suspicious since all death certificates are issued under\u00a0the auspices of Portugal\u2019s\u00a0Ministry of Justice<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Therefore, death certificates for the others who supposedly died of COVID-19\u00a0could\u2019ve only been issued by those same auspices. \u201cWe live in a fraud of unprecedented dimensions,\u201d wrote Dias.<\/p>\n

Dias also said a court order had to be issued before the Justice Ministry\u00a0released\u00a0the death certificates. As such, all those responsible for handling COVID-19 data, from cases to deaths, should be tried in court \u201cif there is any dignity remaining in the rule of law,\u201d added Dias.<\/p>\n

Since the pandemic began, Portugal officially recorded\u00a0around\u00a0879,000 cases of COVID-19 and roughly 17,000 deaths, according to\u00a0data from\u00a0Johns Hopkins University<\/em><\/a>. More recently,\u00a0Portuguese authorities have reintroduced draconian safety protocols in the Lisbon District following a surge in infections.<\/p>\n

The number of daily and weekly infections in the district began surging again recently primarily because of the highly contagious Delta variant. The variant, also known\u00a0to infectious disease experts as B.1.617.2, was first identified in India during a wave of infections there in April and May. It\u2019s been linked to a resurgence of COVID-19 cases in Nepal, Southeast Asia, the United Kingdom and\u00a0many other countries in Europe.<\/p>\n

COVID-19 fatality is likely overestimated<\/h2>\n

Portugal may not be the only country\u00a0overestimating its COVID-19 deaths.\u00a0Various experts have considered the possibility that the fatality of COVID-19 is overestimated.<\/p>\n

In a letter published last March in the\u00a0British Medical Journal<\/em>, scientists wrote that the final case fatality rate (CFR) from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, will\u00a0likely be lower than those initially reported<\/a>. They cited reviews of\u00a0H1N1<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0SARS<\/a>\u00a0that showed systematic inflation of early mortality estimates.<\/p>\n

They wrote that early estimates of H1N1\u2019s mortality were susceptible to uncertainty because of the numerous approaches to testing and biases in reporting, which are difficult to overcome early in a pandemic.<\/p>\n

Sir David Spiegelhalter,\u00a0Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk at the\u00a0University of Cambridge<\/em><\/a>, told\u00a0Financial Times<\/em>\u00a0that\u00a0it\u2019s very difficult to estimate fatality risk<\/a>\u00a0when you have something that varies greatly based on age and a slew of risk factors. \u201c[The] average is pretty pointless.\u201d<\/p>\n

Early last year, Spiegelhalter worked out that the chance you have of dying from COVID-19 is roughly the same as your risk of dying over the coming 12 months anyway.<\/p>\n

In an article published last April, Nina Schwalbe, a public health researcher who has held numerous leadership positions in health and nonprofit organizations, also wrote that the COVID-19 fatality rate seems\u00a0higher than it really is because\u00a0health officials are only counting people who are actively infected<\/a>.<\/p>\n

People sick enough to go to the hospital are likely to need critical care, and people in critical condition are likely to die, said Schwalbe.\u00a0News outlets are reporting only these cases, thereby fostering the idea that COVID-19 is an extremely deadly disease.<\/p>\n

Last October,\u00a0Jonathan Thompson, a Medical Examiner for the State of Iowa, said\u00a0what truly counts as a death due to COVID-19 is debatable<\/a>. He said\u00a0he had a patient with COVID-19 who\u00a0took his own life because he couldn\u2019t take the safety restrictions. Without COVID-19, he would probably still be alive, Thompson said.<\/p>\n

Some people could argue that it is a COVID-19-related death. But there is no clear-cut answer.<\/p>\n

From a medical examiner\u2019s perspective, Thompson added that it\u2019s challenging to determine if a patient is dying with COVID-19 or from COVID-19. Not all healthcare workers and experts distinguish between the two, and that could be one of the main causes of soaring numbers of COVID-19-related deaths around the world. (Related:\u00a0Let\u2019s demand\u00a0a recount\u2026 of COVID deaths<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Thompson said he had a healthy patient in his 30s. The patient didn\u2019t have any past medical history. His family also said he was healthy. He tested positive for COVID-19 only eight days before his death. He was found to have lung disease. On the other hand, Thompson also had to do an autopsy on someone with several underlying conditions. Everything looked normal apart from signs of\u00a0alcohol abuse<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the latter patient, COVID-19 was just an incidental finding, so he died with COVID-19, not from it.<\/p>\n

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