Colorado has made a stunning and significant change to the way it counts COVID-19 deaths that reduced the statewide figure from more than 1,000 to 878, according to a report.
The change came after Colorado’s Department of Public Health admitted that its COVID-19 death toll was counting those who tested positive for the coronavirus but had died of other causes, Fox 31 Denver reported late Friday.
The department now says 1,150 Coloradoans who died had COVID-19 but only 878 of those deaths were “due to” COVID-19.
“We have been reporting at the state, deaths among people who had COVID-19 at the time of death and the cause of that death may or may not have been COVID-19,” Dr. Eric France, the health department’s chief medical officer told the station.
“We started to hear stories about ‘are these correct or are these incorrect?’” France said.
Fox News on Friday reported on one of those stories as part of a report that found that the hodgepodge way states counted COVID-19 deaths was a reason why some people believe the U.S. COVID-19 death figure was exaggerated.
The story involved a 35-year-old man from Montezuma County who died May 4 of alcohol poisoning but whose death was counted in Colorado’s COVID-19 death toll.
“The state is reporting that death as a COVID death, but our health department wanted to let people know that even though the person did have the virus, they did not die from it,” the Montezuma County Health Department said about the man’s death.
The national COVID-19 death toll climbed to 87,568 Saturday with the deaths of 1,662 more people due to the virus, John Hopkins University data showed. But that latest number does not take into account Colorado’s amended figure, listing the death toll at 1,150.
France blamed the confusion on the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System that states use to report COVID-19 deaths to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Hours before the health department lowered the death count a somber Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, had told a coronavirus news briefing that the state had reached a “reflection point” as the number of COVID-19 deaths had surpassed 1,000.
“It’s important to remember that every number has a name,” Polis said. “It’s easy to say over 1,000 people. Each one of those is a person with friends, loved ones and family. If you’re fortunate enough not to have known someone who was lost, take a moment and remember why we all need to do our part.”
Fox 31 obtained a statement from Polis’ office after the death count was reduced that said the governor fully supported efforts by the health department to specify how many deaths were specifically due to COVID-19 “and not just specific to CDC guidelines that include people who died with Coronavirus but not necessarily from it.”
“State epidemiologists believe that once the data is up to date then the number will, unfortunately, be higher,” the statement concluded.
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The Democrats will say & do ANYTHING to keep the COVID deaths coming, in order to justify continuing the blue state shutdowns as long as possible.
here in colorado, the cause of death due to hooptiewuhanfluwhateveryouwanttocallit is more likely in excess of 50% in error. the state agency depends somewhat on the county agencies for data and the state agency only accounted for data they themselves generated. there was zero changes made to county generated numbers with zero changes made in the major metro counties-largely democrat led.
Intellectuals always believe that their right to comment on anything they feel like commenting on is due to to being intellectuals. mere education is a poor substitute for having real world experience to back up those opinions. facts like the numbers of dead in the morgues across the nation can be discounted if the numbers/facts do not correlate with their opinions. as for colorado, we have a governor with zero experience as an executive leader who has had all his wealth handed to him and never earned a wage, being given the helm of a several billion dollar enterprise-colorado state-and considers it his due bought and paid for, and who the hell are you to dispute his right to control your activities.
so, we come back to the idea that led to the US Constitution in the first place. If we all ignore those purporting to be leaders, what chance that they would do anything? We the people ignored the will of a King of England and paid for it in blood and kept our sacred honor. If we ignore our “leaders” now what price are we as a whole people willing to pay now? Imagine the country run by the likes of that ignorant twat governor in Michigan,whose gubernatorial dictates resonate with the memories of the Supreme Soviet. the clown governor we have in colorado is not far behind. he has an open mind like a spitoon which the intellectuals of the People Democratic Republic of Boulder constantly spit into.
The guv had the chance to cancel a 20K person concert in Denver just as this whole shitshow was starting. Did he do it? No. Was his decision motivated by all the dollars that would be “wasted” by a cancellation? Or by the inevitable political ill-will of voters? We’ll never know for sure.
One thing for sure: restaurant owners who have paid the price at the guv’s hands will not forget.
The damage has been done, the fear has been mongered.
Truth should have more pain associated with it when it has been suppressed.
A Republican State legislator called CDPHE on breaking a law in the Colorado Revised Statutes which makes falsifying a death certificate a criminal act. They ran with their tails between their legs.
https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/next/gop-rep-alleges-falsified-covid-19-records-calls-for-indictment-of-colorados-top-health-official/73-bf02452f-4615-4efe-9413-a4826a8105b2