A patient with CRF is hospitalized with Influenza and dies of cardiac arrest due to respiratory failure. The death certificate should read as follows: Immediate cause of death, cardiac arrest due to respiratory failure due to Influenza with CRF as a contributing factor. Take out the word Influenza and replace it with COVID. Same thing! It's not that hard. It's by convention. The public doesn't know the rules, so the unscrupulous antivaxer takes advantage of that to mislead the public into thinking there was some chicanery. Is just like misusing VAERS to mislead the public. If done out of ignorance it warrants correction through disciplinary action. If done intentionally, it's unprofessional conduct and warrants discipline. If done for profit, it's fraud,.
It’s disheartening to run through the multiple conspiracies that Covid denialists spout to “prove” Covid never killed anyone.
Egregious claims include the following:
-deaths are with Covid, not from Covid. All the deaths are due to other things. As proof they like to cite the cases where clerical error lists something like a gunshot wound. (The penny never seems to drop that when an anomaly like that makes media news, it represents the rarity of the phenomenon, otherwise single cases would never be publicised so enthusiastically). And let’s not forget how the CDC admitted 95% of deaths were not from covid (hint; they were, but those 95% also had comorbidities).
- Doctors murdered Covid sufferers by whichever of half a dozen actions you can pick from. (It never strikes them that they contradict themselves by claiming doctors also allowed tens of thousands to die from covid because they denied them drugs like HCQ etc. It’s funny how lethal this harmless disease can be, isn’t it?🤔
Then at the same time they claim deaths were overcounted. They never stop and think that even if one accepts a 20% overcount, then there were still a million deaths from Covid. (In reality, deaths were undercounted by between 10-20%)
And so on. Their conspiracist claims about deaths are lame, untrue, and usually mutually contradictory.
As for co-morbidities, I am an internist. I can find a co-morbidity in anybody. Think you are in perfect health? Give me one hour with you and you'll be shopping for life insurance.
Thanks for this as I've been avoiding rabbit holes. One thing that I recall is the distinction between dying "with COVID" and "of COVID". I struggle with this and wonder why denialists focus on this. I consider this to be artificial distinction and the virus certainly contribute to the death.
A patient with CRF is hospitalized with Influenza and dies of cardiac arrest due to respiratory failure. The death certificate should read as follows: Immediate cause of death, cardiac arrest due to respiratory failure due to Influenza with CRF as a contributing factor. Take out the word Influenza and replace it with COVID. Same thing! It's not that hard. It's by convention. The public doesn't know the rules, so the unscrupulous antivaxer takes advantage of that to mislead the public into thinking there was some chicanery. Is just like misusing VAERS to mislead the public. If done out of ignorance it warrants correction through disciplinary action. If done intentionally, it's unprofessional conduct and warrants discipline. If done for profit, it's fraud,.
It’s disheartening to run through the multiple conspiracies that Covid denialists spout to “prove” Covid never killed anyone.
Egregious claims include the following:
-deaths are with Covid, not from Covid. All the deaths are due to other things. As proof they like to cite the cases where clerical error lists something like a gunshot wound. (The penny never seems to drop that when an anomaly like that makes media news, it represents the rarity of the phenomenon, otherwise single cases would never be publicised so enthusiastically). And let’s not forget how the CDC admitted 95% of deaths were not from covid (hint; they were, but those 95% also had comorbidities).
- Doctors murdered Covid sufferers by whichever of half a dozen actions you can pick from. (It never strikes them that they contradict themselves by claiming doctors also allowed tens of thousands to die from covid because they denied them drugs like HCQ etc. It’s funny how lethal this harmless disease can be, isn’t it?🤔
Then at the same time they claim deaths were overcounted. They never stop and think that even if one accepts a 20% overcount, then there were still a million deaths from Covid. (In reality, deaths were undercounted by between 10-20%)
And so on. Their conspiracist claims about deaths are lame, untrue, and usually mutually contradictory.
As for co-morbidities, I am an internist. I can find a co-morbidity in anybody. Think you are in perfect health? Give me one hour with you and you'll be shopping for life insurance.
Thanks for this as I've been avoiding rabbit holes. One thing that I recall is the distinction between dying "with COVID" and "of COVID". I struggle with this and wonder why denialists focus on this. I consider this to be artificial distinction and the virus certainly contribute to the death.