May 26, 2020. Madison, Mississippi. Covid Virus Deaths.

US deaths from the current virus are high, at this point over 100,000. But the method used to calculate who died from the virus is astonishing. I picked this information up a month or so ago when the NY Governor told everyone that the reason so many people died the day before was because 3,000 people were switched from dying from other causes to having died of the virus. What has happened is that if a person dies and test positive for the virus, they are counted as having died of the virus. Clearly, that is not accurate. Over 50% of virus deaths in the US occurred in nursing homes, so these people were in the homes because they were already sick. But when they died, and tested positive, they died of the virus. Yesterday this fact came to my attention. A man died at age 24. He tested positive and was called a virus death. Except he had been in an accident and subsequently died but as he tested positive, he was on that long list of virus deaths. Many people had heart attacks and strokes but because they tested positive for the virus they are added to the long list of covid virus deaths. So now I take the number of US deaths with a grain of salt. "It ain't necessarily so."