Texans Are Now Dying Every Six Minutes From COVID-19

[TomCADem]

Source: Newsweek

Texans are now dying every six minutes and 16 seconds from the coronavirus, according to a USA Today analysis of John Hopkins University data.

After a record spike of infections in the past month, Texas is now facing the deadly consequences of those numbers. The state reported 1,607 deaths last week, bringing the total death toll to 5,877.

This week, Texas changed its method of reporting COVID-19 deaths to include fatalities marked on death certificates as caused by the virus. The undercounting resulted in a jump of nearly 700 deaths in Monday's count, indicating that 12 percent of deaths had been unreported.

Previously, the Texas Department of State Health Services relied on local and regional health departments to track the state's death toll.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/texans-are-now-dying-every-six-minutes-covid-19-1521337

[empedocles]

1. Sickness stats needed

[bronxiteforever]

2. Kick and recommend for visibility

[durablend]

3. "Everything's bigger in Texas!"

[Stallion]

6. Ann Richards Explaining Why George Washington Had to Move from Texas to Virginia

"12 percent of deaths had been unreported"

(at 1:45)

"son if you can't tell a lie-you'll never amount to nuthin' in Texas"

https://www.pbs.org/video/anns-commencement-speech-uo1vi4/

[DBoon]

4. It sure takes a lot of dead people to keep the Texas economy roaring

[dalton99a]

5. Texas GOP: "No worries. It's mostly elderly & Hispanics"

[Delphinus]

10. Jeezus!

No, please tell me this is a fake!

[dalton99a]

13. "Schools should reopen since most Texans dying from COVID-19 are elderly or Hispanic"

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/28/vance-ginn-texas-coronavirus/
Conservative think tank leader says schools should reopen since most Texans dying from COVID-19 are elderly or Hispanic
In an interview, Vance Ginn said the intention of his Twitter thread was to outline the more thorough data provided by the state. He also said his tweet with a GIF was “woefully taken out of context out of bad faith.”
by Alex Samuels July 28, 2020

Vance Ginn, the chief economist for the Texas Public Policy Foundation, is facing fierce backlash for a recent racist tweet that said schools should open since most of the people dying from the coronavirus in Texas are elderly or Hispanic.

Citing the revised data, Ginn tweeted that the people most likely to perish from the deadly virus are people older than 50 and Hispanics, whose death rate increased from 24.8% on May 27 to 47.4% on July 27. Hispanics make up about 40% of the state’s population.

“Why not #openschools, end universal mandates, target vulnerable & check those from #Mexico?” Ginn wrote in a since-deleted tweet. He juxtaposed his tweet with a GIF of Prince Harry of Wales miming a mic drop.

Ginn, who previously served in the White House under President Donald Trump's administration as associate director for economic policy at the Office of Management and Budget, also served as senior economist for the think tank.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. "Texas changed its method of reporting...deaths to include fatalities marked on death certificates"

And states like mine (PA) were excoriated for reporting "probables" that were awaiting a final test and marking as such on a death certificate. And here TX was ignoring those tested and "confirmed" on death certificates.

[Igel]

12. Details.

Each day cities/counties report the number of people who die.

The state compiles them. That gives a daily count for the number of deaths reported. That's a number that won't change.

Coroners come along and produce death certificates. This can take days after the initial report. This produces a death toll for a day that can change.


The daily report and the coroners' assessments don't need to match. But the difference in who's doing the determination is local, not central.

[BumRushDaShow]

15. Well that has been explained quite a bit here in PA, although the media gets amnesia about it

And that includes the fact that the County Coroners/Medical Examiners are required by law to do an investigation of every death (no matter what the cause - which can include homicides, suicides, car accidents, work-related fatalities, and medical issues like heart attacks, cancer, infectious diseases, etc).

THEN they have to determine the individual's place of residence to confirm whether they were actually a resident of the county/municipality or state or from out-of-state. And if from a different county within the state, that result eventually gets sent to the County where they resided and if it is someone from out-of-state, it gets sent there to some equivalent position's point of contact (perhaps at the county level, that I expect they can look up) so it is registered for their records.

So here in PA they basically had a couple places where fatality reports were made and it has been a continual "reconciling the data" each week (or for whatever interval they are using).

The Coroners/MEs here had literally just started using a new system (EDRS) right when the pandemic hit, but the main disease-reporting system that is referenced the most is PA-NEDSS, which is PA's version of CDC's NEDSS (and I suppose PA's system interfaces with CDC's national database).

[Initech]

8. Heckuva job, Trumpy,. Heckuva job.

[Lonestarblue]

9. Heck of a job, Abbott, also.

I hope voters remember this disaster in 2022 when he runs again. His bad decisions are why we have thousands of cases and people dying.

[LiberalFighter]

11. What the hell. I go to the link and my anti-virus software indicates phishing attack.

[progree]

14. Oh darn, I clicked on the link and discover I've used up one of my 4 free articles for the month

I didn't get any warnings though about malware etc. (Chrome browser / Norton )

[Bengus81]

16. It's just like the flu damnit!! I'm almost 67 and have NEVER had the flu in the summer...........