Criteria To Determine If A Covid-19 Death

https://nypost.com/2020/04/07/feds-classify-all-coronavirus-patient-deaths-as-covid-19-deaths/


Good afternoon all,

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It's not a universal standard. Time to call WHO Dir Gen Ted about this.

Note Dr Birx's "rural areas" comment.

 

The following is something to which I'd not given sufficient consideration. We all know that people who are cigarette smokers are at a HUGE risk of getting complications, to include dying, should they contract covid-19. Obesity is another killer if you get covid. Cigarette-smoking and obesity were the primary reasons that poor people in America had higher c19 death rates. However, the article below links the massive wildfires in California to higher c19 death rates.

"Study Links Excess COVID-19 Cases and Deaths to Wildfire Smoke"

https://www.theepochtimes.com/study...tml?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=ZeroHedge

"New research indicates that exposure to pollutants in wildfire smoke may have led to thousands more COVID-19 cases and deaths.

"The new study, published in the journal Science Advances, links fine particle pollution known as PM2.5, which measures 2.5 micrometers across and is produced by wildfires, among other sources, to a significant increase in COVID-19 cases and deaths in California, Oregon, and Washington state.

“'The wildfires exacerbated the pandemic substantially,' said Francesca Dominici, a Harvard biostatistician and author of the study, in remarks to National Geographic.

"The study sought to gauge the impact of last year’s wildfires in the three states on excess COVID-19 cases and deaths by evaluating their correlation with data on short-term PM2.5 exposure, while seeking to account for a number of confounding factors, including weather, seasonality, long-term trends, mobility, and population size.

"Evaluating data from 92 counties affected by fires, the study’s authors 'found strong evidence that wildfires amplified the effect of short-term exposure to PM2.5 on COVID-19 cases and deaths, although with substantial heterogeneity across counties.'”
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