This has been bothering me for nearly a month. It’s a snippet of a press-release from Life Care Center, Kirkland, WA, the original epicenter of coronavirus in America:
“The deaths associated with the facility, according to Killian, amount to 26 between Feb. 19 and March 7. That includes 15 patients who have died in local hospitals.
Of those 15, 13 have positively tested for coronavirus.
Since Feb. 19, Killian noted that 11 patients have died within the facility on top of the 15 at hospitals. He clarified that the center typically sees three to seven deaths monthly, and that there have not yet been any reports post-mortem whether those in-facility patients tested positive for coronavirus.”
This really caught my eye, and my spiny senses. The “public liaison” for LCC reported there were eleven in-facility deaths between Feb 19 and March 7, a 2 ½ week period, that were not tested for Covid-19. He gave no indication that they were tested post-mortem with results pending. I’ve seen zero follow-up or any reporting from the media that any of those 11 were tested or confirmed positive or negative.
The confirmed cases of Covid-19 are only the tip of the iceberg. Of this there can be no doubt. Initially, the CDC protocols excluded the possibility of identifying any cases of community spread. In order to get a test, you had to have been exposed to someone that travelled abroad and was already confirmed, and then the test results from CDC Atlanta took up to a week. Little has changed. The tests remain a scarce and severely rationed commodity. Almost nobody, except for politicians and basketball players, can get a test unless they are sick enough to be admitted to the hospital. There just aren’t enough tests, required agents, other materials, and personnel to test people just because they have symptoms, even if they’ve had direct contact with someone that was confirmed positive. Patients are told to go home, isolate, hope to “self-resolve”, and not go to the doctor or hospital unless they are critically ill.
If they won’t waste tests on people that have symptoms and presumed positive, why would they waste tests on dead people? It would make sense to test the already dead if the resources existed to contact trace and test others that were in close contact with the deceased, but those resources simply do not exist.
Ergo: People are dying, lots of them, from Covid-19 and they aren’t being counted. Prove me wrong. Seriously. Prove me wrong. Really. I’d love to be wrong.