This was Wendy's Bullshit Board yesterday:
I'll wait on the non-Breitbartian news about the CDC's revisions of the pediatric Covid deaths.
In the meantime, let's focus on this:
Do those numbers, those percentages look familiar to anyone?
If you're a frequent long term reader in this blog, they should.
Wendy was spewing this spew way back in September of 2020.
For context, this was about six weeks before Wendy was fired by KDKA Radio for advocating that "park rangers and snipers" could solve the problem of people protesting Confederate monuments by shooting them. On sight.
In response Wendy said that she'd been "fired for sharing conservative values."
Shooting protestors on sight is a conservative value? Wendy, you're not helping the cause, dear.
This is what Wendy said back then:
This is from the CDC.gov. Double check my numbers, you'll find I'm accurate.
According to the CDC, over the weekend, they said 94% of COVID-19 deaths in the United States of America - 94% of those people who passed had at least one other condition that led to their death.
So I checked her numbers and found they were very inaccurate.
From CNN at the time:
Twitter on Sunday took down a tweet containing a false claim about coronavirus death statistics that was made by a supporter of the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory -- a post that President Donald Trump had retweeted earlier in the day.
The tweet -- which has been replaced with a message saying, "This Tweet is no longer available because it violated the Twitter Rules -- from "Mel Q," copied from someone else's Facebook post, claimed that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had "quietly" updated its numbers "to admit that only 6%" of people listed as coronavirus deaths "actually died from Covid," since "the other 94% had 2-3 other serious illnesses."
And then this was the explanation back then by an actual epidemiologist:
So what’s happening here? Well, it’s pretty simple — in the U.S., deaths are recorded using standardized death certificates. On these certificates, completed by medical certifiers, there are several spaces to fill in — one for the immediate cause of death, and then several lines for the underlying causes of that. As an example, say someone has lung cancer, and dies in hospital of an infection after having a lung removed. The immediate cause of death is the infection, which occurred due to complications of the lung removal, which was ultimately caused by the underlying issue of lung cancer. In the same way, someone who gets COVID-19, which causes respiratory failure, and then dies of kidney failure due to being on a ventilator would have at least three things on their form — the immediate cause, kidney failure, the secondary cause, respiratory failure, and the underlying cause, COVID-19.Wendy, didn't you criticize Dr Rachel Levine for not being a "doctor of disease" but a pediatrician while she was "in charge of our well being" as part of the Wolf Administration?
Yes, you did.
So that actual epidemiologist, that "doctor of disease" debunked that factoid a year and a half ago.
CNN explained:
That is not at all the same thing as saying only 6% of reported Covid-19 deaths "actually died" from Covid-19. It simply means that the other 94% were listed as having at least one additional factor contributing to their death.For example, the other 94% includes people whose death certificate listed both Covid-19 and obesity, both Covid-19 and diabetes, or both Covid-19 and heart disease -- among other conditions.People can live with obesity, diabetes or heart disease for years but then get infected with Covid-19 and die quickly. The fact that they also had an underlying condition does not mean that Covid-19 was not a major reason, or the major reason, they died when they did.
Did you miss the actual news? Or are you just ignoring it?
Are you an incompetent pundit or a dishonest one?
Your pick.
