COVID-19 Provisional Mortality Statistics
Published 28/10/2020 by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
COVID-19 Deaths that occurred by August 31 that have been registered and received by the ABS (Link to report)
ABOUT THE REPORT
Mortality data compiled by the ABS is not based on this daily surveillance. Instead, it is based on death registrations processed by the jurisdictional Registries of Births, Deaths and Marriages, and information on the cause of death sourced from a Medical Certificate of Cause of Death (MCCD) completed by a certifying practitioner.
Mortality data tabulated from the disease surveillance system and the registration system are not directly comparable.
While it takes longer to get the information from the registration based system than the surveillance system, it is more comprehensive and can provide important additional insights into deaths from COVID-19. This is especially the case with data obtained from the MCCD, which enables identification of the underlying cause of death and other associated causes. These data sources also provide demographic information about the decedent (e.g. age, sex and usual residence).
WHO CLASSIFICATIONS AND CODING
There are problems with this appproach:
COVID-19 simply appearing on a death certificate automatically results as COVID-19 being calculated as the underlying cause of death.
For example, if someone has stage 4 terminal cancer, and they catch COVID-19 in palliative care, their death is considered to be caused by COVID-19 and is added to the COVID-19 mortality statistics.
If more information comes to light as to the cause of death, the death certificate and coding cannot be altered.
Athough COVID-19 is a respiratoy disease, it is not part of the count for respiratory disease mortality stats.
Certification of COVID-19 on the MCCD in Australia
Was Australia so overrun with deaths that they couldn't test the 8 deaths suspected to be COVID-19?
It wouldn't have changed anything anyhow...As stated earlier, even if those 8 people had died of other causes, there is no way to modify or remove the COVID-19 Mortality classification.
This is cause for concern
The WHO already advised that, COVID-19 appearing on a death certificate automatically results as it being calculated as the underlying cause of death. So, even if there was a different cause of death or a different sequence of events, COVID-19 being confirmed or suspected is added as a COVID-19 death.
Example: If a 90-year-old man had severe emphysema, and then contracted COVID-19 and passed away, COVID-19 is considered the underlying cause of death and his chronic emphysema is considered the associated cause of death.
It should be the other way around. This directly skews the mortality statistics!
Okay. So the vast majority of people who died with COVID-19 had, on average, 2.4 additional conditions.
HANG ON!
"53.7% (366 of the 682 COVID-19 deaths) covered in this report had the disease progression described in a causal sequence by the certifier"
DOES THIS MEAN...
46.3% (316 / 682) OF COVID-19 DEATHS COVERED IN THE REPORT DID NOT HAVE THE DISEASE PROGRESSION DESCRIBED IN A CAUSAL SEQUENCE BY THE CERTIFIER?
THE CERTIFIERS WHO SIGNED OFF THE DEATH CERTIFICATES OF 316 OUT OF 685 PEOPLE WHO DIED WITH COVID-19 DID NOT DOCUMENT COVID-19 IN THE SEQUENCE OF MORBID EVENTS THAT LED TO THEIR DEATHS
DOES THIS MEAN THAT 316 DEATHS RECORDED AS 'DUE TO COVID-19' WERE NOT DUE TO COVID-19?
The outcome of Pneumonia as a complication of COVID-19 NEVER GETS MEDIA ATTENTION!
Of those who have passed with COVID-19, had any of them been vaccinated against Pneumonia?
COVID-19 'LONG HAULERS' or 'LONG COVID' is the term of extended COVID-19 illness at increased severity.
Is this just a re-classification of viral pneumonia as a complication of COVID-19?
Would it mean pneumonia as a complication or disease progression of influenza should be classified as INFLUENZA LONG HAULERS?
What are the differences between the 2?
What is the ICD-10 Code?
So, if the Doctors certifying the deaths and writing up the death certificates DID NOT document COVID-19 in the disease progression leading to the deaths of 316 people, why was COVID-19 documented as the underlying cause of death?
How can the same 2 codes be used in to represent 2 different stats?
Just by either code appearing ANYWHERE on the death certificate...
COVID-19 AUTOMATICALLY BECOMES THE UNDERLYING CAUSE OF DEATH
THERE ARE NO OTHER OPTIONS TO RECORD ANY OTHER CHRONIC CONDITIONS, ILLNESSES OR DISEASES AS THE CAUSE OF DEATH IF COVID-19 CODES U07.1 OR U07.2 APPEAR ANYWHERE ON THE DEATH CERTIFICATE
IMPORTANT
The doctors certifying the deaths would have filled the forms out correctly and accurately.
The problem started right from the start! The guidelines set by the WHO have led to a serious statistical misrepresentating of the mortality of COVID-19.
HAS AUSTRALIA WITNESSED 910 COVID-19 DEATHS OR 594 COVID-19 DEATHS SO FAR DURING THIS PANDEMIC?
WHO guidelines have been adopted WORLD-WIDE!
If Australia's COVID-19 Mortality figures are so far from the truth, what does that mean for INDIA, WUHAN, USA, UK, EUROPE, CANADA, ITALY etc.?
How does this affect global case fatality rates?
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