@The Zone
So you don’t have a source for the image. Looking at the image itself, the overall number of pneumonia cases was low without corona, so I struggle to see where you making a connection. The drop where you would expect to see a continued trend beginning with a lower than expected amount of deaths due to pneumonia, cannot account for the number of positive coronavirus cases
I’m assuming it is according to the opinion piece article about the statement made by the CDC. However, it seems to make sense that if a person with a preexisting condition is expected to keep on living indefinitely And they are positive for corona, then the coronavirus is the cause of death and not the preexisting condition.
I don’t know how that doesn’t make sense to people. So for the CDC to say that a person who is positive should have this included as a cause of death, I’m not seeing where the issue is here.
a small percentage of people have autopsies to determine cause of death. In general cause of death is decided with the doctors discretion based one present circumstances and past medical history unless there is reason to believe that death did not happen naturally or the family makes a personal request for one.
so your article doesn’t address what you are saying about statistics and your image doesn’t have a source. But I should research this further...
In reality, it is normal to suspect some statistical fluctuation this year because a new disease process is introduced. I have not seen anything that exceeds an expected fluctuation. Your chart is honestly what I would expect to a certain extent already.