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Is The True Coronavirus Death Toll Undercounted? | NBC News NOW
mastrtonberry2
No, it’s actually overcounted.
Angeel !
I don’t even know what to believe tbh
Suzie Q
It’s over counted. Go to the CDC website. Only 6 percent. Go to the CDC website for yourself. BTW…why is New Zealand putting people into quarantine camps a year after disarming them? Is New Zealand worse at handling the virus or is this all a control tactic. Starvation,depression and financial ruin effects lives to. Why were governors and their kids in out rioting with BLM if this virus is so deadly? We have pictures and DeBlasio bragging about his daughter. Wake up people we are being played.
I Truck
She left in a hurry but somehow she took her degrees with her ha ?
Fer azel
cat stevens
lorik67
Many died at home without seeking care.
I Truck
Deaths are over counted Over 70% not undercount it u zombies.
Nick D
Interesting developments in Nashville, Tennessee too;
Although I have mixed feelings about the NewsWeek company, this is worth reading;
Take from this what you will:
“Nashville Officials Withheld COVID Numbers for Restaurants and Bars Over HIPAA Law Concerns, Mayor’s Office Says.
Nashville officials were briefly reluctant to release the low number of COVID-19 cases deriving from bars and restaurants in the city, according to emails between the Metro Health Department and Mayor John Cooper’s office.
The emails between the two offices were erroneously reported by Fox 17 News in a now-retracted story and broadcast in a segment Wednesday night.
Newsweek picked up the story on Thursday morning, but that afternoon, the mayor’s press secretary Chris Song released a statement saying that the TV station’s report was aired with “limited information and without context.”
Fox 17 News originally reported that, on June 30th, contact tracing conducted by the MHD found construction sites and nursing homes were the cause of most Nashville coronavirus cases. Both categories had over 1,000 cases tied to each of them.
At that time, only 22 cases were traced back to bars and restaurants.
“This isn’t going to be publicly released, right? Just info for Mayor’s Office?” Leslie Waller from the health department wrote on June 30.
The TV station reported Senior Advisor Benjamin Eagles’ response: “Correct, not for public consumption.”
In their statement, the mayor’s office also said that the MHD epidemiology notified the city’s coronavirus task force that clusters were connected to Nashville bars on June 27, leading to the city “temporarily closing bars and other businesses and venues with a high risk of COVID-19 spread” on July 3.
On Friday, the mayor’s office released another statement regarding a press release on July 2, in which the Chair of the Metro Coronavirus Task Force Dr. Alex Jahangir said that there were “at least 30” Davidson County residents that tested positive for the coronavirus linked to 10 bars and restaurant locations. The statement said that Fox 17 News was present at the press conference.
A month later, Tennessee Lookout reporter Nate Rau asked the health department about rumors circulating that only 80 cases resulted from the city’s bars and restaurants.
Rau asked: “The figure you gave of ‘more than 80’ does lead to a natural question: If there have been over 20,000 positive cases of COVID-19 in Davidson and only 80 or so are traced to restaurants and bars, doesn’t that mean restaurants and bars aren’t a very big problem?”
An unnamed sender, whose contact information was cut out from the original emails provided to Fox 17, responded: “My two cents. We have certainly refused to give counts per bar because those numbers are low per site, and there are data release standards prohibiting the release of a total count that is less than 10 per small geographic area… We could still release the total though, and then a response to the over 80 could be because that number is increasing all the time and we don’t want to say a specific number.”
The MHD did not answer Newsweek’s requests for comments or verification. Newsweek also reached out to Fox 17 for comment.
In a story published August 4 by the Lookout, the MHD confirmed Rau’s data, saying “more than 80 cases” were identified by contact tracing. As Rau’s story noted, the number is an estimate as not all cases were able to be traced and some individuals, such as tourists, live outside Nashville’s Davidson County and therefore might not be reported back to the local health department.
Emails from July 29, sent by Eagles to several city officials, asks for guidance on releasing data to the public, including “what is our policy for sharing numbers of cases from bars or other specific industries?”
Last month, the Nashville Convention and Visitors Corp. estimated that the city’s businesses have lost $2.4 billion so far in visitor spending during the coronavirus pandemic and are reportedly losing $100 million every week, according to the Tennessean.
Cooper sent a letter last week to Tennessee Governor Bill Lee to request an additional $82.6 million in COVID-19 relief to assist Nashville’s tourism industry, music venue, small businesses and expand social resources.
He later added: “Critical local services are overwhelmed while Nashville’s ability to meet those needs is impeded by insufficient local tax revenues generated by Nashville’s previously booming hospitality and entertainment economy.”
“Nashville has made significant progress with our COVID-19 response as a result of these timely, data-driven public health decisions taken earlier this summer,” the mayor’s office said in Thursday’s statement. “Nashville’s 7-day percent positive rate peaked at 17.1 percent on July 9th. It is 5.1 percent today. Our 7-day rate of new cases peaked at 64.7 per 100,000 residents on July 13th, which is now 15.6 per 100,000 residents as of this morning. These metrics have allowed for incremental, important adjustments to our local economy that are helping more Nashvillians quickly and safely get back to work.””
HW2800
It is exactly the opposite of NBC’s storyline! Many doctors working in the ER know this and so do the hospital administrators!
Kermit T. Frog
We know that Trump has been messing with core mortality data. And we know that Trump’s motto is, “When in doubt, lie.”