@pigletsmom wrote:
@Zhills wrote:
Any time you read an article it is to emphasize just one point!
I always remember Dan Rather's headlines about "There was dancing in the streets" when the Berlin wall fell. AND THER WAS..... one couple out of hundreds of people!
They will tell you how many died with Covid-19 but never tell you how many died each day of natural causes by comparison. If a person coughed once before they died, they had Covid-19! They link everything possible to it for insurance and statistic's sake. Please, take these articles with a grain of salt.
We have more killed in automobile accidents every weekend than die from Covid-19 the week before!
What's really irritating is they have a constant death counter on the TV but no mention of the people recovered.
I noticed here in NY the talk has moved to a lot of old people would have died no matter what. And the state just made an adjustment so my region could open rather than figure out why the state had inaccurate counts compared to the locals in the first place. So I'm guessing we'll soon see a shift in media coverage. Less covid, less press conferences in the near future.
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@pigletsmom, here is a link to a tracking site used by many state health departments that identifies the number of those recovered. For New York it now records 40,159 recovered.
https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/en
Recovery is kind of tricky with coronavirus. They are seeing what is reported in China in that people that had negative tests after hospitalizations all of the sudden have a positive test and also test positive on a 2nd test given a couple of days later. This has occurred in the United States as well, in addition it has been reported in some of the sailors from the USS Theordore Roosevelt. So they will not record those individuals as recovered.
They are also seeing patients discharged from the hospital that are encountering some neurological, renal, cardiac, or pulmonary complications well past hospital discharge. They technically don't count those individuals as recovered either. Same goes for those sent to a long term rehab facility to rehab from a stroke that occurred as a result of covid-19. So those in rehab would not technically be counted as recovered either.
As for differences in data, that is to be expected. Numbers are initially entered, but then a team has to go through and flushed out the specifics of the data. For example, a person may be hospitalized in one county and die in that hospital, but actually reside in another county. The death is initially recorded for that county. When the data is reviewed, they will then subtract that death from the county and move it to the county of residence.
It also happens when there are hospitals close to state borders. Someone that lives in state A goes to the hospital in State B because it is closer. That person dies, the death certificate records the death in the county it occurred. For matter of disease surveillance and death, that death would then be reviewed and moved back to state A.
Data will fluctuate. Not to mention there are areas that have different reporting times. Some data sites may record data from noon to noon for a 24 hour period, others may report from midnight to midnight. Then different hospitals or counties may report at different times. A death that occurred at 4:00pm will be counted by one data company in their 24 hr period of time, but not recorded in the other until the next day depending on the timing of their 24 hour period.
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