Official: Deaths caused by other diseases such as myocardial infarction or underlying diseases are not classified as deaths caused by the new crown

On December 20, the Joint Defense and Control Mechanism of the State Council held a press conference with the theme of “Introducing the relevant situation of medical services for key populations”. Wang Guiqiang, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases at Peking University First Hospital, said that in order to reflect the death situation caused by the new crown epidemic scientifically and realistically, the Health and Medical Commission recently organized experts to conduct demonstrations and clearly judge the relevant death cases. There are mainly two aspects. Deaths caused by pneumonia and respiratory failure caused by the new coronavirus are classified as deaths caused by the new coronavirus infection. Deaths caused by other diseases, basic diseases, such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, myocardial infarction, etc. It is classified as a death due to COVID-19. | Related reading (China News Weekly)

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The number of deaths from the new crown disclosed by the Health and Medical Commission in the past few days is very small, only a few cases in Beijing, but this is obviously a serious departure from the actual situation in various parts of the country. obituary. Seeing the change of this statistical standard today, it suddenly dawned on me.

Such statistics may be divorced from the actual situation. Although the new crown infection is not the direct cause of death, it is a direct predisposing factor. In fact, this is also the case for the deaths of millions of people in the United States. Doing so might make the numbers low, but mislead the public. If it is said that the Chinese government and ordinary people are still unable to accept the large number of deaths, this requires a process of awareness and education, and directly modifying the standards may be a bit deceitful.

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