![]() ![]() Interestingly, the poll also showed that, “Republicans (59% from 40%) and people who get most of their political information from Fox News (61% from 44%) are the most likely to say that the real number of deaths is less than the official count.” A similarly worded question in early May found that a quarter (23%) said the official count inflated the actual toll.” ![]() ![]() As of July 21 (the most recent poll), the Axios-Ipsos coronavirus index poll showed, “Almost a third (31%) of Americans believe the real death toll of the pandemic is less than the 135,000 officially reported as of mid-July. In one extreme case, a Florida man who died in a motorcycle crash happened to also have COVID-19 at the time, yet was coded as having died from COVID-19, not because of the motorcycle accident.Īccording to Daniel Spitz, chief medical examiner in Macomb County, Michigan, “I think a lot of clinicians are putting that condition on death certificates when it might not be accurate because they died with coronavirus and not of coronavirus.”Īnd Spitz is not alone in his questioning of death counts. Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, many have questioned whether death counts attributed to the pandemic have been inflated.Īnecdotally, there are several stories of cases in which people with COVID-19 had deadly heart attacks, yet these cases were coded as COVID-19 deaths. In other words, 94 percent of Americans who have died from coronavirus from the week ending Februto the week ending Aughad, on average, almost three comorbidities that played a role in their death.Īccording to CDC’s report, the leading comorbidities among these deaths were respiratory diseases, circulatory diseases, sepsis, malignant neoplasms, diabetes, obesity and Alzheimer’s disease, respectively. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a report showing that in 94 percent of the roughly 180,000 deaths that have been attributed to COVID-19, “on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death.”Īs the CDC report notes, “For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned.” ![]()
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