🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@SecondJon So I did some research and seems your interpretation of them reporting bad numbers and only admitting it was "all people with covid" when cause is inaccurate.

Not only were they open from the beginning about what the numbers they reported meant, but they had consistently recorded two sets of numbers even before the incident, one for all people dying with covid, and a second for people dying OF covid. However because the public went wackadoo when they heard there was a list for just people with covid who died, and tried to sell it under the conspiracy theory here, they have abandoned/modified that list.

Here is a quote from a colorado doctor I found in the colorado sun talking about the issue:

"At issue here are two different systems for reporting COVID-19 deaths, CDPHE leaders said. One — the one with the higher numbers — is an epidemiological surveillance system that tracks deaths of people diagnosed with the disease. The other — the one reporting lower numbers — is the more mundane recording of causes of death on death certificates by county coroners, doctors or medical examiners."

Later they go on to explain why. Simply looking at the numbers of all people who die with covid, and specifically the delta against baseline, allows for live up to the second monitoring of changes. If there is a difference in numbers of people who die with covid in % vs people who die without covid, then we know the virus is getting worse or better. So it is an important number to collect for up to the minute monitoring.

As for the numbers on people who die of covid, which was maintained but also separately, for that there is a significant delay. Those numbers will lag by months. So while useful in its own right it isnt useful for making up-to-the-minute decisions.

So yea, as expected, the whole thing was mis-reported and of course fox news is, as usual, guilty of bad news.