Uncounted: Inaccurate death certificates across the country hide the true toll of COVID-19

[douglas9]

In Cape Girardeau County, the coroner hasn’t pronounced a single person dead of COVID-19 in 2021.

Wavis Jordan, a Republican who was elected last year to serve as coroner of the 80,000-person county, says his office “doesn’t do COVID deaths.” He does not investigate deaths himself, and requires families to provide proof of a positive COVID-19 test before including it on a death certificate.

Meanwhile, deaths at home attributed to conditions with symptoms that look a lot like COVID-19 — heart attacks, Alzheimer’s and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease — increased.

“When it comes to COVID, we don’t do a test,” Jordan said, “so we don’t know if someone has COVID or not.”



https://missouriindependent.com/2021/12/22/uncounted-inaccurate-death-certificates-across-the-country-hide-the-true-toll-of-covid-19/

[PJMcK]

1. This seems like negligence (n/t)

[CurtEastPoint]

2. This is NOT what I expected. Behold Wavis.

[tyromik]

7. I was surprised as well...

But digging around I found that he ran unopposed as a Republican. In an 87% white county in Missouri, I'm guessing he didn't get around much. Maybe I'm wrong, I hope so. The other thing I couldn't find were his qualifications to be a coroner. Looks like all they need in Missouri is a warm body who doesn't really care.

[gopiscrap]

20. welcome to DU

[yellerpup]

3. Oklahoma passed a law that the deaths from

Covid cannot be counted as such UNLESS they were diagnosed with Covid before being admitted to the hospital. Testing here has been discouraged by the administration to keep the number of positives low. No trust in the Stitt administration at all...

[2naSalit]

4. It wasn't on my mom's DC...

And she passed with it in a rehab/nursing facility in California.

[Maeve]

5. Don't ask, don't tell takes on a whole new meaning

[edhopper]

6. Eventually

we will get a tally of total deaths, and then see how many were above the statistical norm. THAT will be the real count of COVID deaths.

[Rhiannon12866]

8. That was TFG's idea to play down Covid cases and deaths - just stop counting!

[NickB79]

9. Let's be honest: the COVID death toll is over 1 million in the US

[ananda]

10. This under-reporting and under-counting probably means..

that the true toll is at least triple what we know about,
or more.

[MustLoveBeagles]

11. I think you're right

[Captain Zero]

17. I keep saying it is a bigger factor in not having employees to work

A bunch of folks have DIED. That would normally be working.

[FakeNoose]

12. Early Covid deaths were miscounted in NY and PA also

The large wave of nursing home deaths was swept under the rug during the first few months of 2020. Early testing was inexact, and of course the vaccines hadn't been approved yet.

I don't think we'll ever get an exact correct number.

[Orrex]

13. Interesting that no-mask fuckheads are still claiming COVID deaths to be hyper-inflated

[milestogo]

14. Do they count homicides?

[Solly Mack]

15. There's no law against falsifying an official record?

[RB TexLa]

16. Welcome to the world of the most corrupt local political office in the country

No doctor runs for coroner out of a desire for public service.

[Captain Zero]

18. Aren't most of them coroners?

When I was a kid there was a pathologist who ran as a Republican and was always elected, about his third term no Democrat filed. So it was just him.

this was small town/county Indiana.

i think it must have been everyone in a joking mood. But for some reason
on those old flip down a switch voting machines on the Democratic Line under Coroner, they
put a sticker that actually said 'None Filed'.

Well for some reason people started flipping it for the hell of it, and
None Filed WON! in the count. Hilarious.

[rockfordfile]

19. He's a crook