{"id":20914,"date":"2020-07-18T16:30:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T20:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=20914"},"modified":"2020-07-18T16:30:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T20:30:20","slug":"florida-man-who-died-in-motorcycle-wreck-labeled-as-covid-19-death-by-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=20914","title":{"rendered":"Florida Man Who Died In Motorcycle Wreck Labeled As COVID-19 Death By State"},"content":{"rendered":"

ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n

We know that coronavirus death counts\u00a0are being inflated<\/a>\u00a0– we just don’t know by how much. After all, how could they not be when there is a financial incentive for states and municipalities to report deaths as coronavirus deaths? And for some states, there may even be a\u00a0political incentive…<\/em><\/p>\n

Which is why it shouldn’t come as a total surprise when a man who suffered a fatal motorcycle accident in Florida last week was added to the state’s Covid-19 death count.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fox 35\u00a0did an investigation<\/a>\u00a0where they talked to\u00a0Orange County Health Officer Dr. Raul Pino about two\u00a0deaths of people in their 20s that were labeled coronavirus deaths. When they asked if the people who died had underlying conditions, Pino responded:\u00a0\u201cThe first one didn\u2019t have any. He died in a motorcycle accident.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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When he was asked about whether or not the motorcycle victim’s data was removed from the state’s Covid system, he responded:<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think so. I have to double-check. We were arguing, discussing, or trying to argue with the state. Not because of the numbers — it\u2019s 100\u2026it doesn\u2019t make any difference if it’s 99 —\u00a0but the fact that the individual didn\u2019t die from COVID-19\u2026died in the crash<\/strong>.\u00a0But you could actually argue that it could have been the COVID-19 that caused him to crash.<\/strong>\u00a0I don\u2019t know the conclusion of that one.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This seems to stand at odds with how the Florida Department of Health explained how they were reporting Covid deaths.<\/p>\n

The state had told Fox: “A COVID death\u00a0is determined if COVID19 is listed as the immediate or underlying cause of death, or listed as one of the significant conditions contributing to death. Or, if there is a confirmed COVID-19 infection from a lab test \u2013 and the cause of death doesn\u2019t meet exclusion criteria \u2013 like trauma, suicide, homicide, overdose, motor-vehicle accident, etc.”<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only thing that I can say to people is the data I provide you with is the data we consume from the state. We offer you the best data that we have,\u201d Pino concluded, copping out.<\/p>\n

You can watch Fox’s report on the motorcycle accident here:<\/p>\n