Comment by wwweston
3 days ago
Sounds like your Mac Plus died with covid (and really irresponsible customer property management), but not from covid…
3 days ago
Sounds like your Mac Plus died with covid (and really irresponsible customer property management), but not from covid…
Unless they edited their comment, they never said it died from COVID, but because of COVID.
out of curiosity, did you really think the GP thought COVID killed the computer which is an inanimate object that required this level of pedantry?
He was making a pun on the common practice during COVID of attributing death in death to certificates to COVID whenever the patient presented a positive PCR test, no matter the real cause of death, the actual existence of COVID disease in clinical terms or the existence of more preeminent factors in the death.
This usually happened due mostly as a result of federal policy of paying out extra money for hospitals based on the number of covid patients, thus creating an incentive of diagnosing anyone with a positive PCR test as sick from covid, whether they presented actual clinical symptoms of the disease or not.
That seems made up, do you have a credible source for that?
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my understanding/recollection is that it was necessary for surveillance to note when decedents had COVID; it was listed as a (contributing or underlying, not sure of the jargon) cause, and so depending on how you cut the data you could count it either way -- tally all deaths with COVID as deaths from COVID (bigger), or only those where COVID was the main cause (smaller).