{"id":38684,"date":"2020-04-20T14:45:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T18:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38684"},"modified":"2020-04-20T14:45:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T18:45:09","slug":"if-you-dont-get-the-result-you-want-change-the-way-you-count-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38684","title":{"rendered":"If You Don’t Get The Result You Want, Change The Way You Count The Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, The Daily Caller<\/a> posted an article noting that The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has shifted the way deaths from COVID-19 are counted in the United States to include both \u201cconfirmed\u201d and \u201cprobable\u201d cases.<\/p>\n

The article explains:<\/p>\n

\u201cA confirmed case or death is defined by meeting confirmatory laboratory evidence for COVID-19,\u201d a statement<\/a> posted on the CDC\u2019s website reads about confirmed cases.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For probable cases, other evidence for the virus is considered, even if the individual who died had no testing to confirm COVID-19.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cA probable case or death is defined by meeting clinical criteria AND epidemiologic evidence with no confirmatory laboratory testing performed for COVID-19,\u201d the CDC website reads.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The other two criteria for a \u201cprobable\u201d COVID-19<\/a> death are, \u201cmeeting presumptive laboratory evidence AND either clinical criteria OR epidemiologic evidence\u201d or \u201cmeeting vital records criteria with no confirmatory laboratory testing performed for COVID19.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The change in counting could have big consequences for the overall number of cases considered in the United States, changing the number by the thousands.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The only way to come close to judging the number of coronavirus deaths will be to go back to the records in the future to see the normal statistics on death from other causes during the months of February, March, and April and compare it to those months this year. For instance, if there is a 30 percent drop in cancer deaths this year, it might be because those deaths were classified as coronavirus deaths. That may be the only way we can get figures that are even close to accurate.<\/p>\n

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On Thursday, The Daily Caller posted an article noting that The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has shifted the way deaths from COVID-19 are counted in the United States to include both \u201cconfirmed\u201d and \u201cprobable\u201d cases. The article … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1393,1389,12501,174,6913,9196,7015],"class_list":["post-38684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-centers-for-disease-control","tag-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention","tag-coronavirus","tag-daily-caller","tag-death","tag-disease","tag-the-daily-caller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38685,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38684\/revisions\/38685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}