Originally Posted by
2in2out
Rapid influenza tests are used at hospitals and other healthcare centers to rule out flu from other causes. Because the symptoms are so similar, any person with flu-like symptoms gets a rapid influenza test. Covid numbers are based on a positive test, with other causes ruled-out. Only severe flu cases are hospitalized and take much longer to develop the pneumonia’s and septicemia’s that cause death.
Every death is caused by cardiac arrest. What preceded the cardiac arrest is the primary factor for cause of death. Yes, a patient may have terminal cancer, but until they got covid, they were living with the cancer. With a covid diagnosis you have an end insult leading to cardiac arrest. It could be from alveolar collapse and an inability to oxygenate. It could be an inflammation cascade that causes massive clotting that causes cardiac arrest. Doctors and Medical examiners take this stuff seriously in determining cause.
In my county, the medical examiner must investigate every out-of-hospital death. In hospital deaths the attending physician at time of death considers cause and it is reviewed by the ME.
Emergency funding is a numbers game. States and local jurisdictions determine dissemination of funding. Preemptive funding is determined by hospital type, bed count, patient census current and projected, and specialty. Surge funding goes towards the places that are experiencing high infection rates. Funding based on deaths, is fruitless, because funding dead people produces no result.