I analyse an anonymised data dump of 1.9 million admissions records to the emergency departments of an undisclosed NHS Trust for the period June 2017 – September 2021
Re: "Well, whatever the ICD10 entry marking a COVID-19 diagnosis on these 21,928 patient records is supposed to be doing isn’t making any sense." It is supposed to be hiding things, per the WHO's design.
The ICD code for COVID-19 is U07.1. It's an emergency use code under Codes for Special Purposes. It is NOT a respiratory disease (J) code. The SARS-1 code is a U code as well. So are the vaping codes.
Someday, COVID-19 deaths will need to be reclassified. Coronavirus disease-2019 is not a disease with demonstrated unique etiology. There was no new cause of death in 2020. Only the pretense of one. That countries fell in line with the WHO's pronouncements is no surprise, because the participating countries already respond in unison to the WHO directives and changes on certain matters. The ICD codes are one such example.
Re: "Well, whatever the ICD10 entry marking a COVID-19 diagnosis on these 21,928 patient records is supposed to be doing isn’t making any sense." It is supposed to be hiding things, per the WHO's design.
The ICD code for COVID-19 is U07.1. It's an emergency use code under Codes for Special Purposes. It is NOT a respiratory disease (J) code. The SARS-1 code is a U code as well. So are the vaping codes.
Someday, COVID-19 deaths will need to be reclassified. Coronavirus disease-2019 is not a disease with demonstrated unique etiology. There was no new cause of death in 2020. Only the pretense of one. That countries fell in line with the WHO's pronouncements is no surprise, because the participating countries already respond in unison to the WHO directives and changes on certain matters. The ICD codes are one such example.
(See also end of this long article for some relevant information regarding the code: https://www.woodhouse76.com/p/the-sars-cov-2-name-game-long-read)
For further reference https://www.who.int/standards/classifications/frequently-asked-questions/covid-19-emergency-icd-codes
In line with what @metatron
https://open.substack.com/pub/metatron
said in late Dec2020 when vaccines were rolled out - before he was kicked off twitter!