Richard Danila has a stack of legal pads in his office with the handwritten names of nearly every Minnesota death in the pandemic.
The state’s deputy epidemiologist with a 30-year-plus career at the Minnesota Department of Health, Danila said he writes down the name of each person who’s died of COVID-19 as a personal ritual he developed to process the tragedy playing out around him. "It's basically a puzzle we have to put together,” said Leslie Kollmann, co-lead of the mortality review unit who previously investigated unexplained deaths like SIDS in newborns. "And if we don't have all the pieces, we have to go find the pieces.”Sometimes those clues are in autopsy reports or medical records, she said.
Danila and his team spent years preparing for the possibility of a pandemic. For instance, Danila said they predicted we would need social distancing and remote learning to limit the spread, and planned for both."Never did we think about or consider that masking would somehow be political or [there would be] accusations that we were ginning up the statistics,” he said. “It just never dawned on us.
Kollmann has investigated unexplained deaths for a long time. But she said COVID-19 investigations are nothing like her old job because there are so many of them at once.
MPRnews Why are all 3 obese?
MPRnews Did he also start a list of those that died from heart disease? Cancer? Diabetes? Car accidents?
MPRnews We are playing 'no one has ever died before' again I see.
MPRnews Very true.
MPRnews NewsHour and JudyWoodruff highlighted many of those deaths every Friday for over a year. The stories were heartbreaking. arizonapbs
MPRnews But yet so many ignorant people think these amazing public servants are just trying to “control” them. I don’t get how this became such a political issue. Thank you for your important work.
MPRnews So..... fire and prosecute Fauci for funding gain of function research in China.
MPRnews So what’s the job market like there?
MPRnews Is this like the list we saw from other areas where a person was killed in a motorcycle accident but because it turned out they had COVID, they got marked as a COVID death? Is this list covering all the folks who died because of the way the restrictions led to their deaths?
MPRnews This MN team is documenting history. The suffering might not have been necessary but for the negligence & lies of a former guy who hurt the world From a Laotian cattle farmer to Norwegian ferry captain to a Capetown teacher, the masked world suffers from 1 tragically failed ego
MPRnews It's crushing. 'They've worked every day, including weekends, for 16 months — a relentless schedule that forces them to think about COVID fatalities all the time.'
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MPRnews Interesting the first one was 92 years old.
MPRnews Do they have the names of those dying from obesity also.. Figures are similar and these all look like prime candidates whilst I mention it!
Missed an “n” on the end of Minnesota friend
MPRnews Blessings on them for doing so.
MPRnews If that crew of fatties get it, they are DOA. Vaccine or not.
MPRnews Such a big heart
MPRnews How fast could he have been going?
MPRnews Fauci-ism.
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