<div dir="ltr">In the specific case of Tennessee, I believe that.<div><br></div><div>Unfortunately, the national number is an aggregation of numbers from dozens of different jurisdictions with standards that have varied significantly over both geography and time. The GIGO factor is through the roof.</div><div><br></div><div>It doesn't help matters that the [allegedly] hardest-hit geographical regions are also the ones with long-established histories of media-manipulation shenanigans, /and/ the strongest motives to engage in such at this particular moment.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 8:41 AM Dave Sill via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 9:53 AM Darin Sunley via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">That's because one of those numbers is a good-faith attempt to measure an actual natural phenomenon, and one of them is barely-disguised political propaganda generated by counting every warm body they could find a cold virus in.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's not true. For example, in my state:</div><div><br></div><div> <i>“In Tennessee, the state medical examiner’s office reviews all COVID-19-associated deaths,” Buchanan said. “Deaths are only counted as COVID-19 related if the virus is found to be a significant contributing factor to the death. If someone tests positive then sadly dies in an accident completely unrelated to COVID-19, they would not be counted in the death count for COVID-19.”</i></div><i><br> There can also be additional conditions that contribute to the death created by the virus. Buchanan offered the example of respiratory failure associated with COVID-19.<br><br> “If someone were to die, respiratory failure would also be listed on a death certificate as well as COVID-19. The individual may have died from respiratory failure but it was COVID-19 that was the underlying cause of death.”</i></div><div class="gmail_quote"><i><br></i></div><div class="gmail_quote"><a href="https://www.wate.com/news/local-news/coronavirus-in-tennessee-knox-county-reports-91-new-cases-no-new-deaths-on-tuesday/" target="_blank">https://www.wate.com/news/local-news/coronavirus-in-tennessee-knox-county-reports-91-new-cases-no-new-deaths-on-tuesday/</a><i><br></i></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">-Dave</div></div>
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