if you think it was only Massachusetts doing this, you’re an idiot. This was the norm everywhere (and we all said so 2 years ago and no one corrected us, that is the dead giveaway) and it’s criminal. Governments are the enemy, they are not us, they are them versus us. How did this happen?
From March 2020 to March 2021, DPH counted the death of any person who had previously tested positive for COVID-19 as a COVID-related death, regardless of how much time elapsed between those two events.
Even if someone contracted the virus in March and died in a car crash in July, they were added to the ongoing tally of pandemic deaths for that first year.
“This strategy worked well at the beginning of the pandemic, and in fact, a paper was published last summer in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which lauded our efforts here in Massachusetts in counting deaths that occurred during the first wave of the pandemic as opposed to several other jurisdictions,” said Public Health Commissioner Margret Cooke. “But over time, our approach proved to be too expansive and led to a significant overcount of deaths in Massachusetts. People who had gotten COVID earlier in 2020 and died for other reasons ended up still being included in COVID-associated death counts.”
The department updated its approach for the third criterion in April 2021, officials said Thursday, keeping the death investigation and death certificate triggers in place. Under that method, officials counted only those who died within 60 days of a COVID diagnosis as deaths related to the virus, unless their death was clearly linked to another cause such as trauma.
That system remained in place for most of 2021 and will be replaced in Monday’s daily report by the new definition, recommended in December by the national consortium of state public health leaders after months of study.
The new method suggested by the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists calls for counting deaths within 30 days of a COVID-19 diagnosis where “natural causes” is labeled on a death certificate as attributable to the virus, half as long a timeframe as under the most recent definition in Massachusetts.
Brown said the update will “make sure that what we are capturing is the acute impact of COVID.”
“People who are seriously ill and hospitalized for longer and end up dying after that 30 days have almost invariably had COVID listed on their death certificate, so they end up being counted under another method,” Brown said.
As has been the case throughout the pandemic, if an official death investigation determined the virus caused or contributed or if a death certificate lists COVID-19 or an equivalent term, that fatality will add to the pandemic death toll.
Brown said the vast majority of the 4,081 deaths that will no longer be deemed COVID-related, about 95%, occurred between May 2020 and May 2021, covering the tail end of the state’s first surge and its second surge that winter. Most of the roughly 400 deaths that will acquire a COVID label also happened in that span, Brown said.
Taken together, the removals and additions net out to a reduction in the cumulative COVID-19 death toll of about 3,700 people, more than the entire population of Provincetown.
I read an article discussing a detailed study on the supposed COVID death totals as compared to overall excess mortality (and other parameters) in relation to actual cause of deaths shown on death certificates. The “base” group studied was pretty sizeable (in the tens of thousands I think) such that relatively accurate figures could be projected as to actual deaths FROM COVID itself rather than dying from known co-morbidities and other underlying health problems while testing positive for COVID (and it is now well known that the tests produced an extreme amount of false positives).
The end result was that the people performing the studies calculated that the total number of deaths from COVID was around 60,000 in both 2020 and 2021. They noted that this was a similar number of deaths that have been documented from influenza over the years and it wasn’t even as high as the number of deaths during a “bad” flu season.
I read quite a lot on this subject and the more I read, the more convinced I am that this whole thing was a scam to remove President Trump so the WEF’s “great reset” could proceed as planned. There is a virus but it has never been as deadly to relatively healthy people as has been made out. I suspect more people were murdered by the mandated NIH medical protocols of remdesivir / ventilators than actually died of COVID. Actually treating the disease with proven therapeutics like hydroxychloriquine and ivermectin would have prevented many if not most deaths. But the demon scum at the CDC, NIH, etc. couldn’t create the level of fear needed to lock down the economy for more than a year if there was an effective treatment available and few people were dying from this supposedly novel virus.
They had to get the death count up by hook or crook so they could destroy the American economy ……. just the initial step in bringing Klaus Schwab’s “Great Reset” (aka global communism) to fruition. They have all been in it together (the political / bureaucratic class of western civilization) and I can only hope that they will all soon get their just rewards for their evil.
If this keeps up Brandon will be forced to start WWIII as a cover up.
No wait…
Everybody Gotta Get The Jab!
Everybody Gotta Get The Jab!
Eyes open for the soon to be hoist False Flag event in Ukraine.
Brandon will own the most hated spot in world history.
““People who are seriously ill and hospitalized for longer and end up dying after that 30 days have almost invariably had COVID listed on their death certificate, so they end up being counted under another method,” Brown said”
…people who die in hospital probably DO have Coof when they die, but in a lot of cases that’s because they got it WHILE there.
EVERY hospital has a staph infection rate. That’s because hospitals are great places to get sick as they are full of, uh, sick people for…some reason…and as we demonstrated over and over again the last couple of years it is NOT possible to prevent all disease transmission unless we are locked into space suits the day we are born, and even THEN you have to get the air from SOMEWHERE, and THAT can be infected.
Its so common that diseases of this nature have a name, noscomial. Here is the NIH’S own definition of it;
“Nosocomial infections also referred to as healthcare-associated infections (HAI), are infection(s) acquired during the process of receiving health care that was not present during the time of admission. They may occur in different areas of healthcare delivery, such as in hospitals, long-term care facilities, and ambulatory settings, and may also appear after discharge. HAIs also include occupational infections that may affect staff.”
Xxxx://3w.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK559312/
…so,that’s why you stay OUT of hospitals to the greatest extent possible; because they can MAKE you sick.
…so, you go to the hospital because you have, say, COPD, and get a bacterial infection that progresses to pnemonia. COPD is a CHRONIC condition that is likey to be the death of you anyway, and pneumonias can also kill, but while getting your treatment the hospital gives you Coof, then the pneumonia kills you because the hospital starts acting stupid the moment you get a Coof dx, even though you were negative when you came IN.
…so, through the magic of misreporting and the support of it enriching the hospital and feeding the government narrative (which is WHY they pay the hospitals) et voila! You died of COVID!
…even though its MUCH more likely you died of your underlying chronic problem, or the original BACTERIAL pneumonia, or the hospital using only “approved” treatments they get richly paid for instead of the ones that, you know, WORK.
…this is how its always been. And even in this article, I see no accounting for noscomial/iatrogenic illnesses or the underlying causes of death, and so overcounting will remain.
It was NEVER about any VIRUS.
And it still isnt.
It all depends on what your definition of “IS” is.
A couple of days ago the Johns-Hopkins US Covid deaths went from 966,000 to 963,000 (approx). I thought it was just a democrat miracle.
There are no covid deaths it’s all fake.