As we enter winter, the global Wuhan pneumonia epidemic is making a comeback. The U.S. has accumulated 18 million 6061 confirmed cases and 310,9190 deaths as of the 21st. The rising number of confirmed cases and deaths has led to anxiety, and President Trump (Trump) has been criticized by opponents for not doing enough to prevent the epidemic. But a Colorado coroner jumped out and pointed out that the number of deaths from Wuhan pneumonia in every state in the country is likely to be exaggerated, and this will lead to serious consequences.
Colorado coroner: U.S. epidemic death toll exaggerated
According to a report by OAN, a reporter from OAN interviewed Colorado coroner Brenda Bock about the content of the epidemic’s death figures, as quoted by the Free Times.
Bock said that many of the deaths reported were not actually due to Wuhan pneumonia. She cited examples like Colorado Grande County, where five people were reported to have died from the outbreak, but two of them actually died from gunshots. The two deaths from the shooting had been tested for confirmed infection within a month, so the state health department lumped them in as confirmed deaths, Barker said.
Barker fears that inflated numbers because of erroneous statistics will cause harm, with tourists afraid to travel to the area, residents living in fear and local authorities closing the area as a result. More seriously, Barker said she has heard from other coroners that this is a nationwide phenomenon. She cited the example of someone who died in a motorcycle traffic accident but was incorrectly counted because he had been tested for a confirmed diagnosis within a month, and the accidental death became a natural death, affecting how much insurance money his family could receive.
Barker called on other coroners to come forward and speak out to let the public understand the seriousness of the matter.
Dr. David Samadi, an American physician and media contributor, also previously posted data showing that the number of deaths in the United States in 2020 as of November was 2.5 million. 2.5 million can be considered low from the data of the 10-year period from 2010 to 2020, with 2.9 million deaths in 2019 and 2.8 million in 2018 and 2017. 2.8 million people.
Chinese doctors: Many who do not die directly from the epidemic are also counted
As China Watch also reported in September, the outbreak in the United States is suspected to have been deliberately exaggerated by people with ulterior motives.
In September 2020, Dr. Angela Clendenin, a professor in the Department of Infectious Diseases and Biostatistics at Texas A&M University, said that if a death is due to multiple factors such as Wuhan pneumonia plus other chronic diseases, whether it is defined as a Wuhan pneumonia death depends on how doctors determine the primary and secondary causes of death.
“For example, if a patient with heart disease or cancer dies after contracting Wuhan pneumonia, is the cause of death for that patient Wuhan pneumonia or heart disease or cancer? It’s up to the doctor’s judgment to decide.” Clendenin said.
A Chinese-American doctor posted an online article about the general criteria used by U.S. hospitals or doctors to fill out a patient’s cause of death.
Doctors fill out a death in two parts. The first part (Part I) is to fill in the cause of death, this part must fill in the medically logical cause of death, in order from D to A. A is the direct cause of death, B is what led to A, C is what led to B, and D is what led to C. …… a loop.
The second part (Part II) is for the physician to fill in other underlying diseases of the patient that are not the direct cause of death, but because of these diseases, may cause the patient to deteriorate faster or even die, and this part is equally important.
As an example, suppose there is a person who is diagnosed with Wuhan pneumonia virus, but who is asymptomatic or has very mild symptoms of the infection. If the person dies in a car accident while driving, then part A (the direct cause of death) is filled in as “car accident”, but when filling in part B or C or D, the words “Wuhan pneumonia” appear. In this way, his death will also be counted in the statistics of the number of deaths in the epidemic.
In this regard, some netizens believe that, contrary to China’s underreporting of the epidemic, the epidemic in the United States was deliberately exaggerated by some people with ulterior motives to attack the Trump administration for its ineffective control of the epidemic. In addition, the epidemic gave the Biden campaign a “grand” reason to allow people to vote by mail. As expected by the Trump team, there was massive vote-by-mail fraud, leaving the outcome of the 2020 U.S. presidential election up in the air.
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