doubletapp said:
Been running across this from different sources that the CDC is telling Dr's to add presumed deaths from covid-19 to the toll even when no test was done , if a patient died from pneumonia they presume it's a covid-19 death. I'm not saying this isn't real but what's behind the elevated numbers
Yes, this is absolutely true. Here's the documentation to prove it. See the last paragraph:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/coronavirus/Alert-2-New-ICD-code-introduced-for-COVID-19-deaths.pdf
The numbers could definitely be getting inflated from this, and I know a lot of people are joking about this in social media. I just can't wait until we can test larger samples of the population since that will likely show that rate of death as much lower than is currently reported.
The only bummer will be if they mandate testing and implement a more strict quarantine on individual bases depending on whether you've had it or not. That has been talked about. If that were the case, I would want to get it as soon as possible so I can put it behind me and leave the house instead of waiting around for a vaccine to come out, and I think a lot of others will feel the same.