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One thing I saw in a news report here is a doctor checking in on the status in Italy - she said that they were not doing autopsies - patient was on a respirator
by rubber_duck 7y ago
One thing I saw in a news report here is a doctor checking in on the status in Italy - she said that they were not doing autopsies - patient was on a respirator and had symptoms or was confirmed - cause of death corona. So I'm not sure about the reasoning with testing - but I could be wrong.
- _-___________-_ 7y agoMy understanding is that in many countries, the "Covid-19 deaths" count is the number of people who tested positive (i.e. confirmed cases) who subsequently died. This is different to the way deaths are normally attributed to a cause, in that every single death of a person who tested positive is recorded as a Covid-19 death regardless of the severity of their Covid-19 symptoms or any other factors. This has an upward pressure on the reported Covid-19 mortality vs. other diseases. Separately from that, in any country there are of course people dying who were not tested before death and thus were not a confirmed case. They are not recorded as Covid-19 deaths. This has a downward pressure on the reported Covid-19 mortality. The relative magnitude of the upward pressure and the downward pressure are pretty much unknown at this point.
- npunt 7y agoGood summary. One additional thing to point out is the upper bound of the first case is the total covid deaths counted, whereas the upper bound of the second could be much larger.