Lots of deaths are categorized by the complication that caused the root cause and not the underlying illness.
Further - one of the issues we are currently facing is that the COVID-19 test isn't quick and isn't always run on site. (Typical of new diseases - they are still running lab cultures - it takes some time to make better tests.) I had a severely ill friend get tested. In his case, it took 3 days for the test results to come back.
Hypothetically what happened here:
Patent comes in with shortness of breath.
They run a quick test and diagnose pneumonia. It is a quick and easy test to run.
They run a culture for COVID-19, but don't have the result back.
Patent dies from the pneumonia complications.
Death cert is written up.
A day later - the test result comes back as positive for COVID-19.
Can go ether way: they can leave the cause of death as pneumonia or they can change it to COVID-19.
Likely they bothered to change the death cert to improve their chances of increasing federal funding. Either way, but answers are are correct and the patent is still dead.
(And, if this was China, they would have marked it as death by pneumonia because COVID-19 is 'gone'.)
Exactly. It's also possible that due to the test taking a few days for results, if someone comes in already in bad condition, and ultimately looks to have died from pneumonia, their death certificate gets update when the results return positive for kungflu infection.
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mostlyfriendly ago
This 'nurse' doesn't sound very smart.
Lots of deaths are categorized by the complication that caused the root cause and not the underlying illness.
Further - one of the issues we are currently facing is that the COVID-19 test isn't quick and isn't always run on site. (Typical of new diseases - they are still running lab cultures - it takes some time to make better tests.) I had a severely ill friend get tested. In his case, it took 3 days for the test results to come back.
Hypothetically what happened here:
Likely they bothered to change the death cert to improve their chances of increasing federal funding. Either way, but answers are are correct and the patent is still dead.
(And, if this was China, they would have marked it as death by pneumonia because COVID-19 is 'gone'.)
satisfyinghump ago
Exactly. It's also possible that due to the test taking a few days for results, if someone comes in already in bad condition, and ultimately looks to have died from pneumonia, their death certificate gets update when the results return positive for kungflu infection.