Just How Exaggerated Is The COVID-19 Death Count?

1. Another 13% involved people who had at one time tested positive for the disease, but the virus wasn't listed on death certificates as either causing or contributing to death. Five of the state’s “coronavirus deaths” actually died from gunshot wounds.
2. To it's credit, Colorado now tracks two numbers: the broader count of people who died and had tested positive for COVID-19 (currently 1,352), and those who's deaths were due to the virus, which is 18% lower at 1,114.
3. The death figure CDPHE has been providing for weeks is more accurately described as the number of people with COVID-19 who have died – for any reason, noted the Colorado Sun.
4. A review of the data by the Olympia-based Freedom Foundation found that of all the deaths attributed to the virus, 5% didn't list COVID-19 as the cause of death on their death certificates.
5. The Freedom Foundation findings came after Colorado’s public health department was forced to admit that nearly a quarter of those listed as dying from COVID-19 didn't have the disease listed on their death certificates.
6. The reaction from public health officials to this is to basically say, Who cares? In their view, it's always better to overcount deaths than undercount, because that way people will take the outbreak seriously.

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