A death due to COVID-19 is…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A death resulting from a clinically compatible illness, unless there is a clear alternative cause of death that cannot be related to COVID disease (e.g. trauma). There should be no period of complete recovery* from COVID-19 between illness and death.<\/p>Provincial Respiratory Surveillance Report – COVID-19 Technical Notes<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
So any death from a respiratory virus is counted?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There have been 1199 of these deaths since the count<\/a> (archive<\/a>) started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I can’t tell when the count started, because the links for the weekly reports in 2020 just go to the weekly report for 2021. If I click on “Week 33<\/a> (August 9 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c August 15, 2020)”, I get to the page for Week 33 in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not that it matters; these numbers are obviously not taken seriously by anyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A death due to COVID-19 is… A death resulting from a clinically compatible illness, unless there is a clear alternative cause of death that cannot be related to COVID disease (e.g. trauma). There should be no period of complete recovery* from COVID-19 between illness and death. Provincial Respiratory Surveillance Report – COVID-19 Technical Notes So … Continue reading How Manitoba Counts Virus Deaths and What Happened to the Flu?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fact"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pCS8g-h7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m0k.ca\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m0k.ca\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m0k.ca\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m0k.ca\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m0k.ca\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/m0k.ca\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1062,"href":"https:\/\/m0k.ca\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions\/1062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m0k.ca\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m0k.ca\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m0k.ca\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}