ClaireH
Diamond Member
I prefer to use non-politicized sources for measures of scale- Hopkins is better than CDC with state distinctions. CDC tracking records are inaccurate.the data on variants is here
it varies by region of the USA
Throughout 2020, many hospitals and nursing care facilities marked deaths WITH Covid-19 as if they were deaths FROM COVID-19. Huge distinction that blew out of proportion with the federal funding incentive. All deaths marked FROM COVID-19 were given federal monies and the nursing homes and hospitals were not slow about doing so if a patient died WITH COVID-19 but from another cause. There are many documented cases and I know of 2 personally that happened locally. One family threw a fit at the nursing home where their son who was a patient in the facility choked to death on his food in bed, but they marked his death from Covid which was false. Regardless of the family’s efforts to fight for the truth, the nursing home did not change the record to my knowledge. If you are in the medical field you likely already know about similar cases.
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