Source: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6652233867241545728
#Statistics #Data #Risk #Assessment : What May Account for Decrease of Non#COVID #Patients in #Hospitals: And Decreasing #COVID Death Counts?
Some #COVID deaths don’t count in official #COVID deaths? Unless all deaths are posthumously tested for COVID: [LA – same story as NYC – likely all over] e.g. Cardiac Arrest patient with COVID… who never got diagnosed for COVID while being given extended CPR… and not taken to Hospital. [Significantly, given that most COVID deaths are related to underlying conditions such as heart-conditions, etc.]
Thinking Beyond #Data: #Logic & #Assumptions: What Changed? #Policy: a [new] policy intended to reduce the number of high-risk patients flooding emergency rooms during the coronavirus pandemic.: Critically, how do we estimate risk and know for sure what is high risk vs. low risk. Also, risk to whom: the patients, medical staff, other patients, here the policy focus seems on risk assessment beyond any specific patient’s life or death.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-04/l-a-county-911-patients-hospital-coronavirus
