After Deaths At Home Spike In NYC, Officials Plan To Count Many As COVID-19

Frank Franklin II/APThe subway platform at Grand Army Plaza station on Tuesday in the Brooklyn borough of New York.New York City officials will begin to count suspected COVID-19 deaths in addition to cases confirmed by a laboratory following areport revealing a staggering increase in the number of people dying at home but not included in the official tally because they hadn't been tested for the novel coronavirus.

"The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and the NYC Health Department are working together to include into their reports deaths that may be linked to COVID but not lab confirmed that occur at home," she said. She didn't say when the city would begin reporting suspected deaths along with the overall count.

Over the last two weeks, the city's fire officials said more than 2,192 New York City residents died in their homes, compared to 453 during the same time period last year.

And how many were refused a test due to lack of 'normal' symptoms, or no test kits? Or their status?

NPR is cured? Trump 2020

YvonneMulhern COVIDー19 NewYorkCity

Sounds like they are trying to inflate the Covid numbers

The numbers are lower than anticipated (fortunately), however since the government will foot the bill for Coronavirus cases...why not.

brianrmitchell4 Doubling down on the with/of confusion.

Anyone surprised? Sweep it under the rug by not testing, delaying test, shifting blame, pretend it will go away... numbers - who needs numbers

How many people died at home in NYC on any given day before COVID-19?

NYC Officials shouldn’t be believed about anything. deBlasio & staff ridiculed Trump closing travel from China in January & encouraged large gatherings in February. Thank God for the rapid public-private mobilization despite corrupt NYC bureaucrats. AmericaWorksTogether

NYC is bombing the USNS comfort with the chinese flu.. StayHomeSavesLives

we need all the numbers we can get, otherwise the media's prediction of 2 to 3 million US deaths is gonna make us look stupid for believing them.

So if you die at home...you become one of the virus numbers...? Ridiculous...Good way to get those numbers up...

Where are all these 5 minutes COVID-19 testing kits? TrumpPressBriefing !!! TrumpLiesPeopleDie

Translation: The Apocalypse is disappointingly behind predictions.

Well, we can expect the crazed conspiracy theorists to seize upon this with vim and vigor. Cue FoxNews 3,2,1...

OF COURSE THEY WIL It’s not enough that they are already counting people who were already dying from something else and caught corona, now they are going to count anyone they can because they want the death numbers as high as possible because they think that makes Trump look bad

cc: mminthecity

Good keep the numbers real

Dying without being tested. Tell me this isn’t the most preposterous and poorly written Pandemic Blockbuster film of modern times. Sometimes I laugh so hard I get hysterical because...it’s insane and will get a 1.9 on IMDB.

Why?

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