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Are US hospitals/coroners not recording "from covid" and "with covid" separately? I've seen lots of anti-covid-prevention-measures people here in the UK make a
by nicoburns 5y ago
Are US hospitals/coroners not recording "from covid" and "with covid" separately? I've seen lots of anti-covid-prevention-measures people here in the UK make a big deal of this distinction as if nobody else had thought of it, but I've seen graphs based on official statistics which distinguish between the two groups in sources as mainstream as the BBC. At least here there's no need to estimate.
- jtbayly 5y agoIf you can find such numbers, I'd love to see them. > If the decedent tested positive for COVID, the virus also gets placed on the death certificate. Many of these people likely died with COVID, not from COVID, Grannis said. https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/opinion/ct-ptb-davich-covid-related-deaths-versus-covid-causal-deaths-st-0221-20210219-gdspo5vg2bgatim7efo4gmxjpq-story.html https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/opinion/... Here's an article about Australia, too: > Indeed, distinguishing between dying with and dying from COVID-19 may require a more complex investigation into the cause of a death, beyond citing a positive SARS-CoV-2 test that was completed prior to the person’s death. https://theconversation.com/died-from-or-died-with-covid-19-we-need-a-transparent-approach-to-counting-coronavirus-deaths-145438 https://theconversation.com/died-from-or-died-with-covid-19-...
- nicoburns 5y agoI can't find the article I read before, but this one breaks it down for Wales: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-52380643 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-52380643