04-22-2020, 09:44 AM
(04-22-2020, 06:56 AM)Farm93 Wrote: I don't think that implies Santa Clara County was trying to hide deaths, and yet one COULD now claim that the USA, CA or SCC were not open about early deaths and therefore all of those levels of government in the USA should not be trusted.Not sure what you mean by that, but I don't think such a claim should be made. Those first two deaths were people who died at home. They probably had comorbidities and physicians and had received some medical attention before their deaths. Their physicians probably completed and signed their death certificates based on their known medical conditions and acute illness. Being under the care of a physician, and with known pre-existing conditions that could cause death, their deaths were not required to be reported to the county coroner. Or maybe they should have been reported to the coroner but weren't. Or they were reported to the coroner but there was nothing at the time that should have raised suspicion that they were related to the virus. There are many possible ways that the county realistically had no way of suspecting at the time that these were possible Covid-19 deaths. Now, the coroner is looking through all the old death certificates for possible investigation with autopsies, found these two, and is continuing to look for others.