According to Prof Walter Ricciardi, scientific adviser to Italy’s minister of health, the country’s mortality rate is far higher due to demographics - the nation has the second oldest population worldwide - and the manner in which hospitals record deaths.
“The age of our patients in hospitals is substantially older - the
median is 67, while in China it was 46,” Prof Ricciardi says. “So
essentially the age distribution of our patients is squeezed to an older
age and this is substantial in increasing the lethality.”
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But Prof Ricciardi added that Italy’s death rate may also appear high because of how doctors record fatalities.
“The way in which we code deaths in our country is very generous in
the sense that all the people who die in hospitals with the coronavirus
are deemed to be dying of the coronavirus.
“On re-evaluation by the National Institute of Health, only 12 per cent
of death certificates have shown a direct causality from coronavirus,
while 88 per cent of patients who have died have at least one
pre-morbidity - many had two or three,” he says.
Throw in, as noted, that there's no good number on how many people have been exposed, either had no problem or fought it off("I had a cold/flu last month"), which means the death rate numbers seem to be artifically inflated.
Now if we can get a bunch of idiot politicians to pay attention and stop trying to destroy the economy in the name of 'saving' us...
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They're counting high-blood pressure as a pre-existing condition in that 88%.
Don't buy into the bullshit. How many people over 50 do you know that DON'T have hypertension?
As someone said at work about the 'Watch for These Symptoms!' warnings,
"It's Oklahoma in March, half the state has those from their damned allergies!"
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