I want to know how many of these soaring numbers of newly infected

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20. Was it here or on Huff post or ?

Someone posted that Florida has recorded some 5+ K deaths due to "pneumonia" so far this year. The recent average of pneumonia as a primary cause of death per year was under a thousand. One of the associated/secondary causes of death for Covid patients is pneumonia. The obvious take from this is that at least 4K deaths listed with primary cause as "pneumonia" likely have an underlying cause due to Covid. Talk about cooking the numbers.

(And FYI - I'm an old IT guy and worked with preparing electronic submissions to insurance and gov't agencies for disease and fatality reporting for years. The standard reporting included a primary cause and up to about 10 secondary causes or contributing factors. Most every org used the format as defined by Medicare. How any entity could ultimately manipulate that data once sent from the hospital, particularly a gov't entity, is pretty easy. The programming could be easily altered to remove the primary cause, claims could be "reprocessed" to re-order the primary cause of death or re-run through a claims editor. Given what we've heard about the firing of the Florida programmer and her state dashboard - the fix is in. Given the right programming you can make just about any data point show what you want it show. This isn't just a "conspiracy' theory - I could have done the same at my (the hospital) level very easily. I mean, I wrote the program to extract this data from the hospital system. I was responsible for the whole process, including transmission, from my hospital side for years.)