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Originally Posted by gnadfly
Somethings fishy about the recent record number of COVID cases in Harris County and Texas. Somebody's fudging the numbers. Why do I suspect this? Because the number of deaths are so low.
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Originally Posted by tbone2u
From what I hear almost everyone that checks into a hospital gets counted as covid whether they have it or not
Same thing when anyone dies at a hospital
It's about the money
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Just heard this on Rush, a Dr. called in from Houston and said that contact tracers here are checking on people who have been in contact with a positive case. If the person says they have had at least one sympton, headache, fever, cough etc. the contact tracers are marking it down as a positive covid case with no testing.
I have a friend who is related to a mortician. She has handled three burials in the last couple of months that were declared as Covid or Covid related on the cause of death. She's had more but the reason she singled these three out is she knew them personally. None of the three were Covid. Two were cancer and the other was something else. Sorry can't recall what it was. Doctors have been complaining since the early days that the hospital admins are putting pressure on them to diagnose Covid because the hospital gets a lot more money for that.
Another friend told me today that she asked her Dr. about taking an antibody test. He told her that the antibody test may pick up antibodies from other corona viruses such as what causes the common cold and it is assumed you've had Covid 19 when you haven't. If that's the case It makes me wonder how accurate the swab test for positivity of Covid 19. Is it capable of misdiagnosing Covid 19 in someone who has a common cold?
We are several months into this. Not many hard and fast answers but tons of anecdotal evidence pointing every which way and the experts keep changing their tune. It's hard not to get frustrated or start dreaming up conspiracy theories when they are definitive about something one week and then backtrack the next. It doesn't instill a lot of confidence. I'd rather they just say they don't know.
As of today MOCO is still relatively flat in comparison. There's been a slight increase in positive cases but nothing along the lines of Harris County. In fact MOCO has been reporting more recoveries than total positive cases over the last several days. Seems people are less likely to get it in MOCO and when they do they recover pretty quickly. The death toll there is low, like 36, and I think it's mostly related to one nursing home.
