Candace Owens@RealCandaceO
In light of the discovery that @GovNedLamontcounted an infant suffocation toward his state’s #coronavirus death total, I am calling on @realDonaldTrumpto issue an audit of ALL death certificates related to COVID-19. State Health Depts are NOT medical examiners. RT if you agree!
https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/sta...75201115758592
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Also, following up on my re-post of the comment from "WalterWhite" ^ #5, I listened and transcribed some of it:
Transcript:
Dr. Matthew Cartter, Epidemiology and Director of Infectious Disease, Department of Public Health
Start at 16:00
Question: Can you tell us more about the baby and how the baby died, if the baby possibly died of other causes, and was also covid positive?
16:52 Dr. Cartter: Well, first off, cause of death is determined by the office of the chief medical examiner and that is their task. Public health surveillance is very different. Our purpose is to try to identify people who test positive for Covid 19, so we can implement control measures. So anyone who tests positive, contacts with that person need to be in quarantine. So, our definition, what we’re counting is different than what the medical examiner counts. 17:26 I don’t know the cause of death of this person (baby?) you are talking about or any of the people because we don’t determine cause of death. We define laboratory confirmed Covid 19 associated deaths as anyone who has symptoms of Covid 19, tests positive on Covid 19 test, before or around the time of death, We don’t determine causality, that is our determination for public health purposes. 18:01 The medical examiner has a totally different job, which is to try to determine causality. To determine causality, you need to talk with him. And my understanding is, having worked with all the medical examiners for the past 35 years, determining cause of death is not always easy and can sometimes take weeks to months.
Question: Is it accurate to link the death to corona virus?
18:27 Dr. Cartter: Well, from a public health perspective, every Covid positive case we hear about requires a public health action. So if someone dies and they test positive for Covid 19 for us in public health, that means we are still reaching out and identifying contacts. We do not, in any of our statistics, if you look at how we do flu surveillance, its done the exact same way. You go to our website, you look at our weekly flu report, we list the influenza related deaths. This is how we do it across the country. We have our role, and the medical examiner has his job. They are very separate and we count different things.
19:16 Question: But we do know that the baby tested positive for Covid 19? (NO ANSWER)
19:17 Question: Do you know who the cases are? Are they front lines workers? Are they nursing homes? Because we’ve heard lots of reports, a lot of nursing homes are testing positive. Any idea who those big bucket of test positive cases are?
(end of transcribing)