There’s Been a Spike in People Dying at Home in Several Cities. That Suggests Coronavirus Deaths Are Higher Than Reported.
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n recent weeks, residents outside Boston have died at home much more often than usual. In Detroit, authorities are responding to nearly four times the number of reports of dead bodies. And in New York, city officials are recording more than 200 home deaths per day — a nearly sixfold increase from recent years.
As of Tuesday afternoon, the United States had logged more than 592,000 cases of COVID-19 and more than 24,000 deaths, the most in the world, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. But the official COVID-19 death count may, at least for now, be missing fatalities that are occurring outside of hospitals, data and interviews show. Cities are increasingly showing signs of Americans succumbing to the coronavirus in their own beds.
ProPublica requested death data from several major metropolitan areas. Its review provides an early look at the pandemic’s hidden toll.
Experts say it’s possible that some of the jump in at-home death stems from people infected by the virus who either didn’t seek treatment or did but were instructed to shelter in place, and that the undercount is exacerbated by lack of comprehensive testing. It’s also possible that the increase in at-home deaths reflects people dying from other ailments like heart attacks because they couldn’t get to a hospital or refused to go, fearful they’d contract COVID-19.
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Mark Hayward, a sociology professor at the University of Texas-Austin who’s an expert on mortality statistics, said all of those deaths are part of the “overall burden of the pandemic.” He said an uptick in deaths, specifically in ProPublica’s findings for Massachusetts and Detroit, indicates an undercount is occurring.
You should think about the official coronavirus death counts, he said, “as just the tip of the iceberg.” The quality of the deaths data will improve as testing expands and fewer people die without getting tested, he added.
The reason having accurate death statistics is important is because they help signal the location of hot spots and prompt officials to deploy resources. Knowing someone died of COVID-19 also enables health officials to alert their contacts so they can quarantine themselves.
"indicates an undercount is occurring."
That's Weird !
If he knows (As it seems he's saying) about at home deaths, and about other Deaths happening more often than usual....wouldn't you think the CDC and Government already knows too ?
"Shock Value" reporting, is losing it's "SHOCK"...…… Value !
Nope.
They're just petty bureaucrats...generally not too bright!
Coming from Insider knowledge ?
I wouldn't trust anybody to be counting/reporting things accurately..... not us, not the Chinese.
The only people I would trust would be the Germans as they are so anal.
Meanwhile we refuse to include 5,500 nursing home deaths
and except for CVN-71, the OPSEC imposed a blackout on any COVID-19 information.
So on the one hand we have probably ( a WAG ) at least 36,000 deaths plus the untested died at home numbers.
And the other hand, it's still only 1.06%.
The problem being that many survivors are almost incapacitated and require months of rehab.
Why is this surprising? Rural areas have limited access to medical care. Rural areas also have less access to testing, too. So, the number of infections as well as the number of fatalities are being under reported.
What the pandemic is revealing is that the political solution of increasing access to health insurance did nothing to improve access to medical care. Throwing more money at the healthcare system has exacerbated the problem of limited access to medical care because that approach established a profit driven market rather than a need driven market.
While it's obvious that this data is being utilized to pursue a purely political agenda, everyone is blithely ignoring the fact that the data is clearly telling us that touted political solutions are actually making the problem worse.
This is a worldwide issue. Every country with a significant outbreak is having these sort of counting issues.
So, of course, that makes it O.K.
, of course, that makes it O.K.
Imagine thinking that's what I wrote.
Keep fighting those strawmen.
Really? That's what you got from that?