In Michigan, anyone who had tested positive for COVID-19 and dies is counted as a “COVID-19 death” even if it was totally clear that the person died from some other cause, such as a terminal cancer.
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Candid, but shocking, to hear insanity put forward so bluntly
Michael Jenkins
A week or two ago I briefly tuned in to C-SPAN and saw that the Governor of Michigan was holding a press conference and talking about the high death rate from COVID-19 in her state (the highest reported death rate among reported cases of any US state). When asked how Michigan was defining “deaths from COVID,” she asked her director of public health to step forward and answer that question. I was stunned by her candor; she said, flatly, that anyone who had tested positive for COVID-19 and dies is counted as a “COVID-19 death,” and she made it clear that that was true even if it was totally clear that the person died from some other cause, such as a terminal cancer. Candid, but shocking, to hear that insanity put forward so bluntly.
Not surprisingly, when I posted on this site a few weeks ago the great range of death rates, as a percentage of identified cases, in different states, I noted that Michigan’s death rate (where hydroxychloroquine was banned) was over 9%, the highest in the nation, while South Dakota’s rate (where that state’s governor openly urged doctors to use whatever medications they judged to be effective in treating the virus) was the lowest, at about 0.8%.
Perhaps much of the disparity in death rates between the states is due to the “liberal” definition of COVID-19 deaths in Michigan and other states with high reported death rates. Of course, Michigan continues to send sick patients to nursing homes when discharged from hospitals, causing large numbers of nursing home deaths, as in New York, Pennsylvania and other states that have adopted the same deadly policy.
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