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Author: Not The Jab Guy   Date: 6/7/2021 12:06:25 PM  +7/-2  

A California county is revising its COVID-19 death total after a review found that a quarter of the deaths that were attributed to COVID-19 were not caused by the disease. “There are definitely people who died from reasons that were clearly not caused by COVID,” said Alameda County Public Health Department spokeswoman Neetu Balram.

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At issue was the definition the county was using to count COVID-19 deaths, requiring only that a patient tested positive for the virus when they died, even if they did not die as a direct result of the virus. In one such case, a person who tested positive for COVID-19 and died in a car crash was recorded as a COVID-19 death.

The revised count now shows the county has recorded 1,223 COVID-19 deaths, down from 1,634. The 411 cases removed from the list is a 25% reduction in overall virus deaths for the county. The county said it decided to make the revision after a careful reading of state guidelines, with officials saying the new count will more accurately reflect the effect the disease has had on the county.

“Obviously, our definition was broader than the state’s,” Balram said. While some adjustments to real-time data are to be expected, Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, said the 25% revision “seems high.” Adalja said he has never seen that large of an adjustment to the death count from an infectious disease before.

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But county officials also insisted that the revised number does not affect how they chose the measures they put in place to stop the spread of COVID-19. “We knew any change like this would have raised some eyebrows,” said Alameda County’s Health Officer Nicholas Moss. “Nothing about this changes our policy decisions now or during the height of the pandemic.”

 
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