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  1. Sep 2022
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    COVID-19 Vaccination and Non–COVID-19 Mortality Risk — Seven Integrated Health Care Organizations, United States, December 14, 2020–July 31, 2021
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    1. J.C. 17 Sep 2022
      Non–COVID-19 deaths were those that did not occur within 30 days of an incident COVID-19 diagnosis or receipt of a positive test result for SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) via reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction or rapid test.

      This definition is absurd! Why? Because the CDC tells doctors not* to use the PCR test in people who have recently tested PCR-positive already. So a patient who is Covid test positive not tested again except with non-PCR tests and dies 31 days later of ARDS is considered a non-Covid death. That’s absurd. 

      GIGO
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