Reopen for the second wave
or continuation of the first wave
renaming COVID deaths as "pneumonia"?
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Looking at health data on the CDC website after someone on reddit brought this up: Florida, which claims 2,252 Covid-19 deaths as of today, has seen over 5,000 deaths coded as pneumonia during the pandemic. In the last 7 years during the same time-frame, under 1,000 people on average die from pneumonia in Florida. Kentucky's official death toll is 391 while at the same time seeing over 900 more pneumonia deaths than expected. Also from the courier journal's article:
Indiana: 1,832 COVID-19 deaths; 2,149 pneumonia deaths (five-year average: 384)
Illinois: 4,856 COVID-19 deaths; 3,986 pneumonia deaths (five-year average: 782)
Tennessee: 336 COVID-19 deaths; 1,704 pneumonia deaths (five-year average: 611)
Ohio: 1,969 COVID-19 deaths; 2,327 pneumonia deaths (five-year average: 820)
Virginia: 1,208 COVID-19 deaths; 1,394 pneumonia deaths (five-year average: 451)
West Virginia: 72 COVID-19 deaths; 438 pneumonia deaths (five-year average: 117)
a commenter wrote:
I had been watching the numbers come out of Florida and Georgia for a few weeks and they did not seem to add up. Their governors were brazenly reopening against CDC guidelines and yet 2 weeks later they were reporting 3-10 deaths a day while other states had dozens if not hundreds. There was also evidence that Florida was intentionally manipulating/suppressing the true numbers. It seemed odd, but it looks like a Kentucky newspaper found the missing bodies. Deaths from pneumonia have skyrocketed. I have seen people on the right claim the numbers are inflated so hospitals can claim Covid benefits. I have seen people on the left claim numbers are suppressed so hospitals can bring back profitable elective surgeries. I don't know if this is a coordinated strategy to make numbers look artificially low so politicians can save face, but it looks shady. And it looks like they found the missing bodies, and there are a lot of them. Official cause of death: pneumonia. Covid or not, these numbers are staggering.
