[ExI] not necessarily? do explain please...

[William Flynn Wallace]

I think someone said that if a person died and had the virus, even though
he did not die from it, they counted it as a virus death.  Something about
getting paid for virus deaths. I think I read that the first teen death in
California occurred.  Huh?   bill w

On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 2:39 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> I have been away for a coupla wk camping, mostly away from internet.  The
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> https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard-cases.aspx
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> Can someone help me understand why the chart says Cumulative COVID-19
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> “Deaths provided in this dashboard do not necessarily mean that the
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> OK, um… sure.  So… why are they in the database under “Covid-19 deaths”?
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> Over time, the number of people coming to the county coroner with Covid
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> If I count the new case rate from about 2 wks ago and compare to the
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> https://reason.com/2020/07/23/there-is-more-than-one-covid-19-infection-fatality-rate/?utm_medium=email
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