re: OT: Corona Panic 2020

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My friend's dad fell and broke his hip and was admitted to a hospital in FL. They auto-tested him for covid. Bingo, he tested positive. He was recently released, but lets say that hip had complications and killed him. Do you think covid would or would not be listed as the cause of death for the purposes of covid reporting and statistics?

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Anecdotal and hypothetical. But let's assume this happened.

As I understand it, if he is TREATED for COVID, then they would likely list it on his death certificate. The whole idea behind them getting more money is their argument that it costs more to treat (which isn't something I can dispute, overpricing of healthcare not withstanding). Given that the average time in the hopsital was soemwhere around 2-3 weeks, that would totally make sense. No idea whether or not it would be listed in conjunction with anything else, but I think that all depends on what actually kills him. People who have died from strokes have been listed with COVID as a COD because COVID has shown to increase the incidence of blood clots for whatever reason. Thus, they can reasonably tie the two things together. The hip would be a longer stretch, I would think. Again, to assume all incidents like this would be treated the same way across the board would be disingenuous. There are many factors at play.

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(hint: Dr. Birx on national TV, live, answered a reporter's question about possible undercounting of covid deaths, and she assured they are counting every single death while covid+ as a covid-caused death, regardless of actual cause of death, to ensure complete counting, and even doing post-mortem covid testing to encompass as many deaths as possible)

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Yeah, listen, I heard it. I was watching it live. I don't know if it's what she intended to say exactly, but I would think that her INTENT was that it would be counted as a death resulting from complications of COVID infection, not necessarily a direct result thereof. And I don't think that's a major stretch. They can't just ignore the fact that the person was positive and died, either, completely dimissing any correlation.