The Chinese National Health Commission has set the standards for death by COVID-19, and analysts believe they could cut down the true counts of death by COVID-19 because they are so strict.
At a press conference on Dec. 20, Wang Guiqiang, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases, Peking University First Hospital, indicated that only “respiratory failure caused by COVID” will be counted as a COVID-19 death.
Wang claimed that the main cause of death from COVID-19 infection was the underlying chronic illnesses of the elderly; the direct cause of death by respiratory failure from COVID-19 infection is few.
Therefore, deaths caused by illnesses such as “cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, myocardial infarction and so on are not classified as COVID deaths,” Wang said….