The WHO recommends to label everyone as a c19 death who was tested positively within the last month. They say they explicitly want to overestimate the number of deaths because they don’t want to underestimate it to be on the save side.
Additionally, the relatively high false-positive rate leads to an even higher overestimate.
Also aren’t there massive financial incentives for clinics to label someone as a c19 death? IIRC an ICU bed for a c19 patient costs 5-10x more per day than for other patients.
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The WHO recommends to label everyone as a c19 death who was tested positively within the last month. They say they explicitly want to overestimate the number of deaths because they don’t want to underestimate it to be on the save side.
Additionally, the relatively high false-positive rate leads to an even higher overestimate.
Also aren’t there massive financial incentives for clinics to label someone as a c19 death? IIRC an ICU bed for a c19 patient costs 5-10x more per day than for other patients.