Italian Study Reveals COVID-19 Death Toll is Exaggerated

A new report published in Italy, compiled with help from doctors involved with treating COVID-19 cases, undermines government and mainstream media claims of high mortality due to the disease.

It is published (April 29, 2020) in Istituto Superiore di Sanità: Epidemiology for public health and titled: ‘Characteristics of patients who died positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection in Italy.’ [1]

In summary, these medical professionals report that no more that 3.8{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} of deaths in Italy could be verified as being from COVID-19.

The most reasonable and accurate claim that can be made is that 96{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} of those patients in Italy had died WITH  COVID-19 (or with comparable symptoms of pneumonia).

Italian recorded deaths, in 60{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} of cases were accompanied by three or more chronic co-morbidities.

This small group of doctors has been releasing their statistics for two months now, detailing a breakdown of the data concerning everyone who died. They initially tried to convey their findings to the mainstream media and Italian national press but were ignored. It appears authorities were not interested in investigating their warnings of widespread mis-allocation of deaths to COVID-19.

All that has been presented on media broadcasts are simplistic and misleading accounts, such as there were “500 Italian Coronavirus deaths today ” etc.

https://www.epicentro.iss.it/coronavirus/sars-cov-2-decessi-italia

The report identifies the majority of the reported COVID-19 dead (60{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117}) had MORE than 3 existing illnesses:

“This figure was obtained from 2351 deceased for whom it was possible to analyze the medical records. The average number of pathologies observed in this population is 3.3 (median 3, Standard Deviation 1.9). Overall, 90 patients (3.8{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} of the sample) had 0 pathologies, 340 (14.5{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117}) had 1 pathology, 504 (21.4{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117}) had 2 pathologies and 1417 (60.3{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117}) had 3 or more pathologies .”

Joseph Sullivan (no relation) contacted the Italian state health department for more information. He has been following these reports since they began in English six weeks ago. But the key distinction that needs to be made here is that so many of these reported deaths are with and not from the disease, which is still not being been conveyed by the press. Joseph Sullivan explains:

“Obviously that nuance is super important – while caution at the start was understandable by other governments, it doesn’t excuse the fact that hard data from the only western government that was giving it, was consistently ignored. Data that showed lockdown was the wrong option categorically. You can bet politicians and media knew. (I called a lot of them, all recorded).”

As already reported in Principia Scientific International, there appears an emerging pattern in first world nations of presenting the data in such a manner to maximize the appearance that the coronavirus is more deadly than is actually the case.

[1] https://www.epicentro.iss.it/coronavirus/sars-cov-2-decessi-italia


About the author: John O’Sullivan John is CEO and co-founder (with Dr Tim Ball) of Principia Scientific International (PSI).  John is a seasoned science writer and legal analyst who assisted Dr Ball in defeating world leading climate expert, Michael ‘hockey stick’ Mann in the ‘science trial of the century‘. O’Sullivan is credited as the visionary who formed the original ‘Slayers’ group of scientists in 2010 who then collaborated in creating the world’s first full-volume debunk of the greenhouse gas theory plus their new follow-up book.

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    K Kaiser

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    Hello John,
    That’s not surprising — to me.
    The MSM (also here) have been pushing misleading info all along.
    One can still see it, every day on prime-time TV “independent” news.
    Best regards,
    KK

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      Alan Stewart

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      Klaus, John,
      I’m very confused and after years of watching the economics of Climate Change. My college was Business including basic business economics. I’m Alan Stewart NOT Alan Greenspan. The Pols derive their power quietly through taxing individuals and businesses. The Media derives their income/power through advertising revenue from businesses.
      How then will CC and the C-19 lockdown which will both destroy their income sources and power benefit them?? The pure basic mechanics of this are inexplicable to me. Your’re both smarter lads then I. Expliquez s’il vous plait – spelling probably incorrect but Medieval Times since I was taught French – LOL

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        Herb Alan

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        Hi Alan,
        In my opinion they are willing to make the short term sacrifices of gains in order to preserve their long term success which is threatened by Trump and the anti “same old thing again” movement that was willing to elect an egotistical, amoral, con man rather than maintain the continuation of the same old crap.

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          Alan Stewart

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          Thanks Herb, and your’re on the mark. Oh, hell yes a BEAR MARKET strategy. Again, I’m not Alan Greenspan. Of course always this insane quest for more money you’ll never be able to spend. A possibly apocryphal story – Andrew Carnegie supposedly tried to give his fortune to charity and FAILED. Actually Trump may do the same but he’ll probably succeed.
          Cheers

          alan Greenspan. It would be really interesting to look at the stock portfolios of the Lockdown pundits. I was right on the mark though MONEY, MONEY. They are ALL AMORAL One comment though Herb, Donald John doesn’t care about the money. Agreed???
          Cheers

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            Herb Rosr

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            Hi Alan,
            I don’t believe he has that much money. He is about show to make it look like he has money. The reason he ran for president was to promote the “Trump” brand, he didn’t expect to win.
            He has a history of using the law to defraud investors and subcontractors as he sucks money from companies. He refused to pay contractors by using the cost of the legal system to force them to take less money. It is the same strategy J. P. Morgan used to steal Tesla’s patents.
            By declaring bankruptcy multiple times he defrauded shareholders and forced bond holders to become the new shareholders who he again screwed when again declared bankruptcy. He is a disgusting person but a good president. Go figure.
            Herb

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        chris

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        It’s what’s selling. While the dem politicians said that Pres Trump was a racist for acting the media reported it. When the dems changed positions to absolute authoritarian power the media also changed. The mass media goes along with what ever the dems want. This goes back decades. The question is, what’s the connection between the media and the dem politicians?

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    John O'Sullivan

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    Klaus, In my opinion this explains why all 5 nations with no lockdown have significantly lower death rates than Italy and the UK – both lockdown countries. It is also inexplicable that many western nations with first world health care services are reporting extremely high COVID19 deaths versus third world countries – all thanks to corrupt politicians, media and bureaucrats.

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    William Kay

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    Klaus/John/Al: Hate to say “read my articles” but the key to Covid-19 comes from analysing which countries/regions went for this crazy lock-down first and hardest. Lombardy, Bavaria, and Madrid are places with very interesting political traditions which are effectively run by one-party states; and have been for decades. The ruling parties of draconian clampdown states espouse corporatist economics and authoritarian statehood. Death counts coming out of Lombardy and Madrid are utterly fantastical.

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