watch it with subtitles, its not word for word but you get the gist
Thanks for this suggestion. Not having used subtitles with YouTube before, I had to look up and figure out how to turn them on. It is easy. Also, I slowed the speed which made it easier to read for me to read the subtitles.
So, if I understood correctly, anyone who is admitted to the hospital and tests positive for COVID is reported in the statistics as having COVID regardless of whether they were symptomatic or not. Which is correct unless the test is false positive. Where it gets hairy is when someone who tested positive for COVID on admission and later dies while in the hospital. Even though they might have been admitted because they had a broken leg which would presumably have nothing to do with having COVID. That they tested positive for it becomes part to their death record. Is my understanding about this right?
How would they resolve this issue? The patient either has COVID or they do not. If they don't, it's not a problem. If they have COVID, I believe it should be included in the total number of COVID cases reported. The broken leg example is not valid where there is death because people don't die from a broken leg, meaning they died from something else. So, then the question becomes did COVID cause that something else they died from, like often is case with respiratory and/or heart failure. It should be easy to determine what caused what or which health issue came first.
If I read the subtitles correctly, it takes considerable time to process the coroner's report, which allows the opportunity to delineate if a person died with or from COVID. Is there room for errors? Could COVID deaths be overstated? Absolutely. The likelihood of the total number of COVID cases which did not result in death being overstated is less likely. Furthermore, the number of cases where no hospitalization is involved are absolutely understated. As an example, one which I used previously, five of the six of us in our house who had COVID were not reported. Since I ended up going to the doctor and being treated for pneumonia, which was probably caused by COVID, my doctor's office likely reported it to the public health department in Oregon.
People will take from that video whatever supports their foregone opinions. From my perspective, statistics are rarely accurate because there are a lot of variables which leave room for error. So, statistics are kind of a best guess situation. Nothing I read while watching that video suggests to me there is some master conspiracy going on where folks are intentionally misreporting COVID for some nefarious reason.