The following is an except form my “COVID Deaths in Canada: A Questionable Statistic” article that was published in Off-Guardian on July 1st…
I’m rather baffled why the government is relying on such broad and liberal lists of symptoms and circumstances to identify whether someone has died from COVID-19. Reviewing the literature, it seems like there is only one way to die from COVID-19 and it is fairly easy to detect.
“By the end of 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) was informed about an outbreak of pneumonia of unknown etiology in Wuhan, China…” says an article in the journal of Cellular & Molecular Immunology. Originally known as “Wuhan pneumonia,” Chinese scientists later renamed the disease “novel coronavirus-infected pneumonia (NCIP)” according to the same article.
Indeed, the original name for COVID encapsulated what the disease really was: pneumonia caused by a new coronavirus.
WebMed confirms this: “The illness tied to the new coronavirus was originally called novel coronavirus-infected pneumonia (NCIP). The World Health Organization renamed it COVID-19, which is short for coronavirus disease 2019.”
Why was pneumonia removed from the name? Was it because there were other ways in which COVID could kill?
WebMed states that COVID can also cause “a condition called acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). This disease comes on quickly and causes breathing problems.” But WebMD says this only occurs in people who already have pneumonia.
Thus, pneumonia appears to be the only accepted means by which COVID can directly kill its host. This would indicate that someone is not technically a COVID case unless pneumonia is present. Simply detecting the coronavirus in their body does not mean the person suffers from its potentially fatal outcome – once better known as novel coronavirus-infected pneumonia (NCIP).
You can read the rest of the article at Off-Guardian. There I present evidence that the reason pneumonia was removed from the name was so that deaths by other causes could be attributed to the this “novel” coronavirus.
About the Author: John C. A. Manley is the author of the full-length novel, Much Ado About Corona: Dystopian Love Story. He is currently working on the sequel, Brave New Normal, while living in Stratford Ontario, with his wife Nicole and son Jonah. You can 