NYC's daily home deaths are up 10x compared to normal. Official death count

Apr 6, 2020
11:31:19am

jkccoug Intervention Needed

could be way higher than we have thought. These are not getting counted as COVID deaths unless there was a positive COVID test before death.

It’s not just deaths in hospitals which are up. On an average day before this crisis there were 20-25 deaths at home in NYC. Now in the midst of this pandemic the number is 200-215. *Every day*. 5/
— Mark D. Levine (@MarkLevineNYC) April 6, 2020

https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1247155576221716480

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NYC's daily home deaths are up 10x compared to normal. Official death count

jkccoug

4/6/20 11:31am

A tough situation. If it was my family, I'd just settle for a quick cremation, without all the usual

Indy Coug

4/6/20 11:33am

Large numbers of Italy's deaths were from them dying at home

CSoul

4/6/20 11:36am

It'll be a while until we know the death count.

ReyOso

4/6/20 11:36am

Saw an article about similar numbers of undiagnosed deaths in Italy.

cougarmeister

4/6/20 11:36am

Temporary internment in Central Park... Wow.

coug almighty

4/6/20 11:37am

It said "a NYC park" but I didn't see anything about Central Park

AZ Coug

4/6/20 11:44am

Must have imputed it. Regardless, mass internment is war time stuff, even with

coug almighty

4/6/20 11:46am

Interesting how the twitter comments are all blaming Trump for this

AZ Coug

4/6/20 11:48am

Over half the deaths in the country are not in NY.

ReyOso

4/6/20 11:53am

No one deserves to die from this. NYC just makes it very difficult to prevent the spread.

Soupie

4/6/20 11:59am

I didn't say over half. I said half. It's currently 47% and rising fast.

AZ Coug

4/6/20 12:06pm

but....but...but I thought NY was intentionally inflating the number of deaths..

Dwight89

4/6/20 12:32pm

Could also be that some of these home deaths are from other causes and people

SnickSnack

4/6/20 1:51pm

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

jkccoug

4/6/20 2:12pm

Not at high enough rate to explain the 10 fold increase.

coug almighty

4/6/20 2:23pm

I’m not saying this isn’t true but with 88.67% of all stats being made up on the

GangstaLean

4/6/20 2:32pm

The guy who tweeted that is the NYC Public Health Department head.

jkccoug

4/6/20 2:36pm

Same guy who told people to go to the parade and ignore the virus in February

AZ Coug

4/6/20 4:50pm

Unfortunately, that’s not really helping the validity of this claim.

GangstaLean

4/6/20 5:31pm

So this turned out to be a huge lie

AZ Coug

4/10/20 3:47pm

Big surprise!

GangstaLean

4/10/20 5:11pm

Seems like a lot of strawmen in there. The original article used

coug almighty

4/10/20 6:39pm

It's not an NYC Park like he called it (and he knows that)

AZ Coug

4/10/20 6:57pm

Did you mean to post another tweet? Doesn’t really refute the numbers of the NYC employee.

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