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COVID-19 Last Week In Escambia County: Two Died, Cases Increase By 85; 27 Long-Term Care Cases Reported
April 12, 2020
Two people died from COVID-19 during the past week in Escambia County.
Also during the past week in Escambia County:
- One death was a 78-year old male that had contact with a previous case but no travel, and the second ws a 91-year old female with no travel history and no contact with a known case. A 75-year old female passed away a week prior.
- The number of cases in the county increased from 125 to 210. During the week, the number of cases in Pensacola increased from 84 to 155, and the number in Cantonment went from 19 to 26.
- The number of cases in residents or staff of long-term care facilities increases from just one to 28. Health officials will not name the facility or facilities involved.
- The first cases were reported in Molino and McDavid.
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4 Responses to “COVID-19 Last Week In Escambia County: Two Died, Cases Increase By 85; 27 Long-Term Care Cases Reported”
REGARDING:
“Does it mean there were a lot of Flu deaths counted as Covid deaths under the CDC presumption clause?”
Since they can test for flu, it seems unlikely doctors confused the flu deaths. More likely that isolation reduced transmission of flu virus.
David for reason
Response to Anne: you can look up exactly how the deaths are calculated on the CDC website. Here is the just of it.
Anyone who tests positive for Covid 19 and dies should be coded as death by covid 19 (I forget the actual code number)
Anyone who is presumed to have covid 19, but no confirmed result, can be coded as death by covid 19 absent any exigent circumstances.
So…How many of the deaths are from Covid 19 and not another illness, disease, etc? My opinion is nowhere near as many as reported. If you take a look at the Flu deaths this year, they have somehow miraculously fell to almost zero since the coronavirus virus struck. Does this mean that Covid 19 eliminates the flu? Does it mean there were a lot of Flu deaths counted as Covid deaths under the CDC presumption clause? You’ll have to make your own educated response unfortunately.
The CDC site is updated daily, and all the data is there for interpretation.
One other point, if you look at death count by week for the U.S., there are actually less deaths reported nationwide (barely) than before the virus, so overall, no more people are dying from any means now than before the virus. You would think with all the Covid 19 deaths, there would be a substantial spike in overall deaths had Covid 19 been the cause, right?
Again, these are my observations only. I’m not a doctor, expert, or anything of the sort. Just some statistics nut looking at numbers on a page.
REGARDING:
“Was the cause of death actually those pre-existing conditions rather than the virus?”
Usually there were preexisting conditions. (I have several of them — such as being fat and 65.) They didn’t die of them until COVID-19 hit them. They didn’t need mass Graves in New York City until COVID-19. It causes several conditions itself such as pneumonia in most but attacks the hearts of others.
Sometimes no other conditions were known.
David for truth
Would be interesting to know Full Facts on those who have died.
Were there pre-existing chronic illnesses that they had for some time before death?
Was the cause of death actually those pre-existing conditions rather than the virus?
Have heard that any death where COVID-19 is present is being classified as Cause of Death is COVID-19 no matter if the true death was caused by pre-existing ailments.
Anyone know if there’s any truth to this?
Keep practicing the Distancing and avoid Gathering Up and follow the guidelines for good hygiene, hand and face washing and avoid crowds.
BE WELL and Happy Easter.