Hmmmmmm

[Clayton_Wetters]

We are seeing this phenomenon in other places outside of NYC. It's more likely that we are under counting covid-19 deaths than it is that we are over counting.

No NO NO!!!!

[NormP]

NYC isn't miscounting their total number of deaths regardless of cause of death. All they have to do is report how many bodies show up at the morgue.

My point, or more specifically the point of the NY Times, is that health officials are counting a death as a covid-19 death when there has been no positive test or sometimes no test at all; and in some cases nothing at all related to coronavirus beyond "oh we couldn't get him a room after his heart attack because they're full of covid-19 patients, so since he died due to inadequate medical care it we're going to blame it on coronavirus."

It's the same as getting shot in the chest and while the ambulance is transporting you it comes up on a wreck that has completely blocked the only road to the hospital. So you die while the ambulance is stuck in traffic and the cause of death is listed as due to a "traffic collision." Makes no sense and only serves to skew the numbers.

I don't really care about the total number of deaths in the city this year. I think most people would just like to see the actual number of deaths caused by actions of the virus, not deaths also lumped into that category for some vague reason.

[Clayton_Wetters]

Norm he chooses to believe the fake news sources because he is a blind stone cold Democrat, even when the party has gone Socialist/Communist.

[Barbecueboy]

The 39 was from memory.

Or lack there of....but who's counting?