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Read the attached stories from the NYTimes, Washington Post and The Hill. The stories deal with the complexities of counting the victims of the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. See the links in the attached.
2. Write a 500-word post detailing some of your takeaways about the different positions that are taken by different states and the federal CDC on what constitutes a covid-19 death and why this is important for political policy makers who are debating criteria for reopening the economy. You should provide at least three takeaways.
Death Toll-Counting Controversy
New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/us/coronavirus-deaths-undercount.html?searchResultPosition=2
Washington Post
NYT-Spain Divided
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/world/europe/coronoavirus-spain-death-toll.html
Right-wing Perspective
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/493370-keeping-the-coronavirus-death-toll-in-perspective
Explanation & Answer
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Running head: COMPLEXITIES OF COUNTING CORONAVIRUS DEATHS
Complexities of Counting Coronavirus Deaths
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COMPLEXITIES OF COUNTING CORONAVIRUS DEATHS
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Introduction
Since the first cases of COVID-19 were reported in various countries, the number of
deaths has increased all over the world. Death records related to any epidemic are important
because they tell how complex or serious is the epidemic. The number of COVID-19 related
deaths recorded globally depends on the initiatives taken by the governments to detect the
disease. This means that there is a possibility that some nations are not very accurate in recording
the actual number of COVID-19 related deaths. After reading some articles about the
complexities of counting the victims of the COVID-19 in the U.S, I found the following
takeaways.
Takeaways about the different positions that are taken by different states and the federal
CDC on what constitutes a COVID-19 death
First, the federal CDC believed that healthcare workers have not been keen on recording
death cases that are caused by the coronavirus (Kliff, & Bosman, 2020). Due to this, the CDC
came up with new ways of classifying coronavirus d...
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