{"id":8301,"date":"2020-05-30T00:39:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T07:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=8301"},"modified":"2020-08-10T18:29:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T01:29:25","slug":"states-are-not-cooking-their-books-with-regard-to-covid-19-pneumonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2020\/05\/30\/states-are-not-cooking-their-books-with-regard-to-covid-19-pneumonia\/","title":{"rendered":"States are not Cooking their Books with Regard to COVID-19 \/ pneumonia"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve heard it said that states may be cooking their books with regard to COVID-19 vs flu & pneumonia deaths. The theory is that states want to appear “ready to open” when, in fact they are not. I looked into it and the CDC’s Fluview website shows a modest increase in flu & pneumonia deaths this year. But it doesn’t<\/strong> show a big, smoking gun of hidden COVID-19 deaths.<\/p>\n

A well-meaning friend forwarded a fabricated image about the matter today. I spent an hour figuring out that it was fake.<\/p>\n

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Here is why I believe the data is fabricated. I went to the CDC’s Fluview site<\/a> as mentioned by Andy Slavitt here<\/a>. I downloaded the data for Florida in 2018-2020. The numbers on the CDC website regarding pneumonia deaths don’t look suspicious like it does in the above image! In Florida, in weeks 5-21 I count this many pneumonia related deaths in these years:
\n2020: 5291
\n2019: 3890
\n2018: 3999<\/p>\n

That is MUCH different than the fabricated image.<\/p>\n

There’s a lot of things I don’t know about this pandemic. But now there’s one thing I think I -do- know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve heard it said that states may be cooking their books with regard to COVID-19 vs flu & pneumonia deaths. The theory is that states want to appear “ready to open” when, in fact they are not. I looked into it and the CDC’s Fluview website shows a modest increase in flu & pneumonia deaths […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}