States are counting cases and deaths in different ways, and many are over-counting.
“The government’s disease-fighting agency is conflating viral and antibody tests, compromising a few crucial metrics that governors depend on to reopen their economies. Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, and other states are doing the same.”
According to an excellent report from the Freedom Foundation:
“Today, officials at the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) confirmed that… the state is counting in its COVID-19 death total the deaths of persons who tested positive for the virus but died from other causes.”
“In remarks made during a telephonic press briefing, DOH officials even acknowledged knowingly including multiple deaths caused by gunshot wounds in the state’s COVID-19 fatality count.”
“…DOH’s reported COVID-19 death total is inflated by as much as 13 percent due to state’s practice of counting every person who tests positive for COVID-19 and subsequently dies, even if the death was not caused by COVID-19.
On Friday, the Colorado Department of Health and Environment revised that state’s total deaths “due to” COVID-19 downward from 1,150 to 878 after local news reported the state was inflating its fatality count in a similar fashion.
The Freedom Foundation has also confirmed DOH intends to start counting “probable” COVID-19 deaths among its totals, which will result in the inclusion of deaths of persons who had not tested positive for COVID-19.”
So WA state admitted to classifying gunshot deaths as Covid because anybody who dies after testing positive is a Covid death. Anyone who is in the hospital and tested positive counts as a hospitalized case. People can be counted as confirmed Covid deaths even if they don’t test positive. Wow are they inflating the numbers.
It goes on, a FOX 35 report in Florida found:
“Countless labs [in Florida] have reported a 100 percent positivity rate, which means every single person tested was positive. Other labs had very high positivity rates….”
“FOX 35 News went on to speak with the Florida Department of Health on Tuesday. They confirmed that although private and public laboratories are required to report positive and negative results to the state immediately, some have not. Specifically, they said that some smaller, private labs were not reporting negative test result data to the state. “
A motorcycle fatality was counted as a death in Florida and not removed from the death count until the media began investigating.
“N.C. ‘Reporting Error’ Fuels 200,000 COVID Testing Overcount”
So many people in Ohio have claimed they were notified of a positive test result when they never got tested at all that the State Auditor is opening an investigation. He’s a Republican, same as the governor, so it’s not a partisan hit job.
Britain recently removed 1.3 million data points that had been double counted.
It goes on and on and on. There is a nation-wide pattern of accounting and reporting inaccuracies. So many inaccuracies make it tough to trust the numbers.