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The data that we do have, meanwhile, could end up being terminally skewed, particularly the data that's been coming out of China.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's guidance on determining COVID-19 as a cause of death isn't going to help those numbers.
Issued March 24, the guidance tells hospitals to list COVID-19 as a cause of death regardless of whether or not there's actual testing to confirm that's the case.
Instead, even if the coronavirus was just a contributing factor or if it's "assumed to have caused or contributed to death," it can be listed as the primary cause.
The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, or ICD, has established the code U07.1 for death by coronavirus infection. There's a secondary code, U07.2, "for clinical or epidemiological diagnosis of COVID-19 where a laboratory confirmation is inconclusive or not available," according to the CDC guidance.
"Because laboratory test results are not typically reported on death certificates in the U.S., NCHS is not planning to implement U07.2 for mortality statistics."
Therein lies the problem.
"The underlying cause depends upon what and where conditions are reported on the death certificate. However, the rules for coding and selection of the underlying cause of death are expected to result in COVID- 19 being the underlying cause more often than not," the guidelines read.
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Comment: Here it is in black and white. The CDC is artificially inflating the mortality rate of COVID-19 by telling hospitals to not look at ambiguity or other factors involved in death. The result will of course is to see the mortality rate increase. This is undoubtedly the gas that fuels hysteria in the public to implement further controls.
There is a profound difference between a definitive cause of death and acknowledging equally contributing and/or existing factors. How these determinations are reported determines this layer of patient history forever. Considering the volume of cases involved, there will unlikely be a second review to separate out the causes of death in order to gain a perspective that is factually useful going forward. No need, indeed, considering this experiment is a PSYOP.