David Bailey
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Eric, who are you replying to - hopefully not Michael Larkin's post immediately preceding this.It's been explained to you repeatedly. You just don't want to accept the explanation because you're a troll.
Once again, have a heart attack, get hit by a bus, just get old and croak and there is a positive covid test, then it's covid death. For that matter, have appendicitis and the sniffles, the sniffles are presumed to be covid and you are now listed as a covid death.
What makes you think that every death listed as covid had ARDS?Show that data, troll.
Do you realize that every year many people die from ARDS? Were they all covid? Pneumonia causes ARDS as does the flu. Where are all of those deaths in 2020/2021. Somehow disappeared while "covid" deaths surged.
The tests are inaccurate and will state that any detected coronavirus (could be common cold) or even any flu = covid19. Also, fragments of covid DNA that are ubiquitous in the environment get labeled as covid infection.
Also, hospitals are paid at a higher rate on DRG reimbursements if there is a covid diagnosis on the claim.
Then there's just plain blatant lying to cover up for failed policy, poor care delivery, in pursuit of more money.
You, as usual, fail to address points that you should be able to -like why is the CDC not using rates for its excess death BS? Can you explain why with a growing and aging population age/sex adjusted rates are not used instead of raw numbers? Of course, but we all know you're not here for honest discussion. Why was the death rate in the US higher in some other years in the US since 2000???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
David