Statistics on the Trump Plague

Tecumsehsbones

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Over the past few days I hear stories that anyone dying now that has Covid19,wether that is the cause of death or not is labeled as Covid19 death. Does anyone know if this is true or just another conspiracy theory?
I imagine it's true in some cases, and those who have an ax to grind and an agenda to follow will magnify that to all cases in whichever direction their craziness and dishonesty happen to lean.

You know, the kind of people who think "information is never perfect, therefore it's all wrong, therefore whatever drooling idiocy I've decided is Da Troof must be right!"
 

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The rate and effectiveness of testing in each jurisdiction is ultimately the foundation of the statistics.

Without having a comparable base line between countries, comparisons aren't all that comparable
 

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Over the past few days I hear stories that anyone dying now that has Covid19,wether that is the cause of death or not is labeled as Covid19 death. Does anyone know if this is true or just another conspiracy theory?

Have I not been pointing this out for the last fortnight, or so?

The Italian death figures are hugely exaggerated because they record people as having coronavirus merely within them as having died from coronavirus even though they didn't. It's thought that the number of Italian dead is only around a tenth of the official number.

A similar situation is happening in Britain. The Scottish Government has been criticised for including those who "probably died" from coronavirus as having died from it. So the numbers in Scotland and in Britain as a whole having died from it are exaggerated.

Germany, you may have noticed, has a
low death toll. This is because the efficient Germans seem to be only recording deaths as actually having taken place from coronavirus.

Germany's low death toll provides a more accurate view as to coronavirus's lethality - low.
 
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Blackleaf

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Over the past few days I hear stories that anyone dying now that has Covid19,wether that is the cause of death or not is labeled as Covid19 death. Does anyone know if this is true or just another conspiracy theory?

As I said, those stories are true. The Italians are recording many people as having died from coronavirus as even though they didn't. The true death toll in Italy is only a tenth what they are saying it is. That's not a conspiracy theory. It's a fact.

And you're not alone in believing the media and governments are exaggerating the numbers of deaths:

Share of respondents worldwide who agree that the media has exaggerated the extent of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak as of March 14, 2020, by country

India:73%
Australia: 58%
Russia/USA: 55%
UK: 50%
Canada: 48%

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1101742/media-exaggeration-corona-situation-by-country/

Talking about conspiracy theories, I do think there's something else going on that governments around the world are covering up.
 
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residents - 65

deaths - 29

45%

Also 28 staff are positive
 

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Interesting, but all those people have underlying conditions and one foot in the grave already. This is the kind of numbers I was wondering about. Just because they tested positive, or even were sick does not necessarily mean covid19 is what killed them.
 

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Interesting, but all those people have underlying conditions and one foot in the grave already. This is the kind of numbers I was wondering about. Just because they tested positive, or even were sick does not necessarily mean covid19 is what killed them.
Shhh...
 

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Interesting, but all those people have underlying conditions and one foot in the grave already. This is the kind of numbers I was wondering about. Just because they tested positive, or even were sick does not necessarily mean covid19 is what killed them.

Jesus, don't talk sense on here. You're asking for trouble.
 

B00Mer

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4 April 2020
U.S.
Cases: 1,193,862
Deaths: 64,387
5.4%
Canada
Cases: 13,912
Deaths: 231
1.7%
UK
Cases: Nobody cares
Deaths: Still don't care


Based on the newest unemployment and corona statistics, there are:

47 jobless for every confirmed corona case.
320 jobless for every hospitalization.
2,112 jobless for every death.

Maybe it's time to open the economy and let the week die and strong thrive