USA- Wow, just in time for the runup to the 2022 midterms—how weird is that?
At the same time states (blue ones, mind you) have suddenly discovered the “science” of mask mandates, we are now hearing that the Department of Health and Human Services has instructed hospitals to cease reporting coronavirus deaths, a decision announced earlier this month, according to Breitbart News.
🚨BREAKING🚨
US Government to end daily COVID death reporting
A document issued issued Jan 6 by the US Health and Human Services tells hospitals they are no longer required to report daily COVID-19 deaths to the federal government starting Feb 2.
Story broken by @DataDrivenMD pic.twitter.com/jpxQi2yItZ
— Andre Damon (@Andre__Damon) January 14, 2022
As the death toll approached and then surpassed 900,000 in the United States, HHS decided it was time to stop reporting the deaths because the “magic number” of one million was suddenly “in reach.”
Oh, they didn’t say that but clearly everything this administration does is driven by politics. Surely, this couldn’t be so the CDC can manipulate the numbers, could it?
With covid deaths under the Biden administration (with three vaccines and a bunch of therapeutics) surpassing the total amassed during Trump’s term, the messaging will look really bad if deaths pass the one million mark, especially since old sleepy had promised to “shut down the virus.”
Donald Trump still doesn’t have a plan to get this virus under control. His failure to lead is costing American lives.
Here’s what I’ll do as president: https://t.co/etpUGBkONZ pic.twitter.com/aK3GjwG4vw
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) August 18, 2020
The guidance was initially established in January, however the rule change didn’t go into effect until the week before last, ironically on the same day Britain’s government said they too would stop requiring hospitals to report coronavirus death tolls by Easter, WSWS reported.
Not all were happy about the decision, with one federal health official (who was not named) calling it “incomprehensible,” while arguing that COVID death tolls reported to the government is the most reliable metric.
“It is the only consistent, reliable and actionable dataset at the federal level,” the official complained. “Ninety-nine percent of hospitals report one hundred percent of the data every day.”
From now on, the federal government will use the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) data to compile death tolls. The CDC collects data on a state-by-state basis from coroner and medical examiner reports.
“Deaths are reported by the counties/states but the process is very slow and many coroners are actually not wanting to cite COVID as the reason, while hospitals rely on diagnoses,” the official told WSWS. “It is also timely as it is every day and many states have a delay anyway but now many are reporting less often.”
“The CDC has never really counted cases for things that a lot of people get like the flu,” the official continued. “They get data from sentinel sites and then extrapolate what is happening.”
According to Alexis C. Madrigal, co-founder of the COVID Tracking Project, HHS has been up until now providing the “best and most granular publicly available data on the pandemic.”
“There was no hospital data at the federal level and even at many states,” said Madrigal.
“We had no idea who has capacity, who was in trouble, who had supply shortages, who was getting admissions so fast that they would need supplemental meds, who has staffing issues, etc. We also didn’t know anything about the people admitted in a timely manner, such as age.”
Not everyone sees the change as a bad thing, with American Hospital Association Vice President Nancy Foster claiming the CDC provides more accurate information, which includes coronavirus deaths that occur outside of hospital settings.
“While it is likely that most individuals who die of COVID do so in the hospital, some die at home, in a nursing home or elsewhere,” Foster told KXTV.
“We believe CDC looked at the conflicting sources of data on COVID deaths, chose the one that was most accurate, and moved to reduce the burden on hospitals to collect data that were less complete and, to the best of our knowledge, not being used,” Foster added.
The U.S. death toll from the Chinese coronavirus under Joe Biden’s administration will soon surpass the death toll recorded during Donald Trump’s administration, and in less time. https://t.co/RpGCwSW2Ha
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) November 26, 2021
Meanwhile, the World Economic Forum believed from the beginning we may have been overestimating the actual death rate caused by COVID-19.
They noted that little was actually known about the incidence or prevalence of COVID, although we certainly know more today. They wrote that “projections are based on models, and this uncertainty breeds fear,” noting that in cities such as New York, “fear is [was] on just about everyone’s mind.”
The WEF said that using data from China (which admittedly may be somewhat questionable), 80% of COVID-19 cases are asymptomatic or display mild symptoms. Only highly symptomatic people are [still] encouraged to go to the hospital.
They also noted that lack of adequate testing meant that typically, only hospital patients were counted as cases. In other words, asymptomatic patients or those with mild symptoms were not counted. That remains the case today.
All of this resulted in what is called “selection bias” which is another way of saying that only people sick enough to go to the hospital were counted among those deemed to have coronavirus.
All of this affected the denominator, which resulted in a higher rate than what was actually occurring on the ground. This skewed the mortality rate which in turn ramped up the fear and loathing in people.
The WEF said that by “only counting people who go to the hospital, we are [were] overestimating the percentage of people who die of COVID-19.”
What did this do?
“It’s a dangerous message that is causing fear—and it is all driven by a false denominator,” the WEF says.
Unfortunately, that fear continues today, where the mainstream media and political-driven narrative has instilled fear of imminent death in people if others aren’t vaccinated or wearing masks. The real pandemic is the…
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