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Media use the death of Tanzania's president to reinforce Covid approach

OPINION:
If the reports of crowded Tanzania hospitals and a rise in funerals are in any way like those in California, then perhaps some more digging would be necessary.

Either way, at this point we can merely conclude that in addition to heart disease, President Magufuli died of pneumonia, influenza, or Covid, which the CDC groups together when testing has not been performed. Most people are unaware that not all Covid-involved deaths in the United States are determined from laboratory tests — for a variety of reasons. Each state (and hospital) varies in budget and authorization, so the CDC groups these uncertain deaths together under PIC: pneumonia-like, influenza-like and Covid-like.

For the week ending March 13, 2021 since the start of the pandemic, the CDC labeled more total deaths as due to pneumonia, influenza OR Covid-19 (725,000+) than total number of Covid-related deaths (520,000+).

It takes a while to digest that information because it’s not definitive information. There’s uncertainty baked in.