Toby Young – Daily Sceptic Nov 3, 2021
A reader spotted an interesting story in Il Tempo, an Italian newspaper. The Italian Higher Institute of Health had adjusted downwards its estimate of the number of people who’ve died from Covid, as opposed to with Covid, from over 130,000 to under 4,000. Yes, you read that right. Turns out 97.1% of deaths hitherto attributed to Covid were not due directly to Covid.
According to its latest report on Covid mortality, the Institute says COVID-19 has killed fewer people than the average bout of seasonal flu. According to the statistical sample of medical records collected by the Institute, only 2.9% of the deaths registered since the end of February 2020 have been due to COVID-19. So, of the 130,468 deaths registered by official statistics dating back to the beginning of the pandemic, only 3,783 are due to the virus alone. All the other Italians who lost their lives had from between one and five pre-existing diseases. Of those aged over 67 who died, 7% had more than three co-morbidities, and 18% at least two. According to the Institute, 65.8% of Italians who died after being infected with Covid were ill with arterial hypertension (high blood pressure), 23.5% had dementia, 29.3% had diabetes, and 24.8% atrial fibrillation. Add to that, 17.4% had lung problems, 16.3% had had cancer in the last five years and 15.7% suffered from previous heart failures.
Worth reading in full… if you speak Italian.
If any readers would like to translate the article for us, please send the translation to lockdownsceptics@gmail.com.
Stop Press: We’re doing some digging into this to try to corroborate it. Treat with caution until further notice.
Stop Press 2: We trawled through the various websites of the Italian National Institute of Health (NIH) and National Institute of Statistics to try to corroborate this piece from an Italian newspaper, and it appears to be based on this report (in English) published on or before October 20th. The author of the piece is effectively stating his opinion that only those who died of Covid without comorbidities (2.9%) should be counted as a Covid death, and then extrapolates from there to suggest that the ‘real’ Covid death toll over the period in question was only 3,783. This is all contrary to the report itself and to the NIH’s detailed guidance (in Italian) on how to classify Covid deaths. It thus seems as though the article severely misrepresents the position of the NIH, but a lot seems to have been lost in translation and this is really just an opinion piece where the author is poking fun at the NIH while trying to make a point about the risks of Covid.
Comments From a Reader in Italy
The devil is in the detail!! Best regards. Fabrice, greetings from Italy.
Reference:
“Italian Higher Institute of Health Adjusts Number of Deaths Due to Covid Alone Since February 2020 Downwards From Over 130,000 to under 4,000”, published by TheTruthSeeker, November 7, 2021.
https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=245196
1. Here is how the devil is in the detail!! First part.
Look at this:
https://www.epicentro.iss.it/en/coronavirus/bollettino/Report-COVID-2019_28_april_2021.pdf
this is the last report published in English language in which under the Tab 1 there was written in plain English the following very meaningful note:
“SARS-CoV-2 related deaths presented in this report are those occurring in patients who test positive for SARS-CoV-2RT by PCR, independently from pre-existing diseases.”
This is the next report published in English language:
https://www.epicentro.iss.it/en/coronavirus/bollettino/Report-COVID-2019_21_july_2021.pdf
as you can see, they crossed out the very meaningful note above mentioned which instead was always reported in all the same previous reports published in English language!!
To point out also the very important fact that this very meaningful note has never been reported in all the same reports published in Italian language, Never!!!
PS Gianni Lannes, one of the few capable independent Italian investigative journalists, wrote a specific article about this particular issue, here it is:
https://sulatestagiannilannes.blogspot.com/2021/08/istituto-superiore-di-sanita-rapporti.html
2. Here is how the devil is in the detail!! Second part.
You have mentioned the NIH’s detailed guidance (in Italian) on how to classify Covid deaths as it was the Bible but the gigantic health fraud is within the guidance, here it is!!
2. Presenza di un quadro clinico e strumentale suggestivo di COVID-19
La definizione di quadro clinico compatibile è di pertinenza del medico che certifica le cause di morte (curante o necroscopo). Si ricorda che i Centers for Disease Control and prevention statunitensi (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/symptoms.html) hanno identificato i seguenti sintomi come tipici dell’infezione COVID-19:
Febbre§
Tosse§
Dispnea§
Brividi§
Tremore§
Dolori muscolari§
Cefalea§
Mal di gola§
Perdita acuta di olfatto o gusto§
3. Assenza di una chiara causa di morte diversa dal COVID-19 o comunque non riconducibile all’infezione da SARS-CoV-2 (per esempio trauma). Ai fini della valutazione di questo criterio, non sono da considerarsi tra le chiare cause di morte diverse da COVID-19 le patologie pre-esistenti che possono aver favorito o predisposto ad un decorso negativo dell’infezione. Una patologia pre-esistente è definita come qualsiasi patologia che abbia preceduto l’infezione da SARS-CoV-2 o che abbia contribuito al decesso pur non facendo parte della sequenza di cause che hanno portato al decesso stesso. Per esempio, sono patologie pre-esistenti il cancro, le patologie cardiovascolari, renali ed epatiche, la demenza, le patologie psichiatriche ed il diabete.
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2. Presence of a clinical and instrumental picture suggesting COVID-19 The definition of a compatible clinical picture is the responsibility of the doctor who certifies the causes of death (treating or necropsy). Please note that the US Centers for Disease Control and prevention (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/symptoms.html) have identified the following symptoms as typical of the COVID-19 infection:
Acute loss of smell or taste§ Sore throat § Headache § Muscle aches § Tremor § Chills § Dyspnea § Cough § Fever §
3. Absence of a clear cause of death other than COVID-19 or in any case not attributable to SARS-CoV-2 infection (for example trauma). For the purposes of evaluating this criterion, pre-existing pathologies that may have favored or predisposed to a negative course of the infection are not to be considered among the clear causes of death other than COVID-19. A pre-existing disease is defined as any disease that preceded the SARS-CoV-2 infection or that contributed to death while not being part of the sequence of causes that led to the death itself. For example, pre-existing diseases are cancer, cardiovascular, renal and hepatic diseases, dementia, psychiatric diseases and diabetes.
Comment.
In practical terms, for example, an Italian man, 75 year old, obese, with diabets and suffering from lung cancer because he has been a heavy smoker for many years, test positive for SARS-CoV-2RT by PCR , after few weeks he dies, then in Italy his death has always been reported as a SARS-CoV-2 related death!!
If this is not a gigantic health fraud, hence, the elephants can fly!!
3. Here is how the devil is also at the beginnings!!
“Expectations in treatment have proved harmful”, by Andrea Zambrano for La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana ( The New Daily Compass, online Catholic newspaper ) , April 2, 2021
The Mario Negri study is the first controlled publication on the early home treatment of Covid: “Few, simple anti-inflammatory treatments and only 2.2% hospitalized”. The infectious disease specialist Fredy Suter, coordinator of the research led by Professor Remuzzi, at the Bussola. “The watchful wait with Tachipirina was not successful: it proved harmful”. Was the solution at hand? “We needed the courage to get out of the box.”
Continuation:
https://lanuovabq.it/it/le-attese-nelle-cure-si-sono-rivelate-dannose
Noteworthy is the final passage of the article:
Do you think that, by reading your publication, the government will realize that it must immediately correct the course and change the current guidelines which provide for early-stage vigilant waiting and acetaminophen?
I don’t know, it’s not up to us. I would be satisfied that many healthcare professionals could experiment with our approach and that it was calmly accepted that the method of watchful waiting can be considered outdated.
If we had moved in time, would anything have changed?
Maybe. What is certain is that when you have a new disease you must have the courage to break the mold. Well … let’s say it went like this.
Short comment.
After seven months ( from April 2021 to October 2021 ) the Italian medical and political class has not yet found the courage to get out of the box , otherwise all these harmful and useless experimental vaccines and much more ( “The Great Reset” by the Davos psychopathic elites ) would have been blown up long ago, in short, they are the servants of Big Pharma and the Davos psychopathic elites, that’s it!!
4. Best regards.
Fabrice, greetings from Italy.
They don’t know what to do–if they pretend the vaccine is working, we can all go back to work, and they do not want that. They’d have to scrub COVID and go back to the CO2 imposture on its own, and be satisfied with Covidly killing only a few hundred thousand people.
NOBODY KNOWS EXACTLY WHO
DIED ALONE BY COVID 19 OR VAX !
Therefore – no real pandemic. As a number of brave Italian MP’s said very early in pandemic last year that the numbers the government was posting were fake – as are the numbers in our nations – German, French, Brit, Canadian, Spanish, Portuguese, Mexican, Brazilian and US death numbers were all fake and used as pretexts to fuel the plandemicssss. As we know, it is all geared to cancel our basic rights and to jab whomever with whatever they want.
Our systems are all built on lies as are all of the UN Agendas the globalists are imposing on us. All of our so-called free and democratic nations are built on the freedom to lie to those below us in the chain of power. No political leader or person in power such as Gates feel they have a duty to disclose the truth to the public they address.
In fact, we take it for granted that our legislatures are houses of deception and lies, and in law it is not even a crime for those in government or our politicians to freely lie to us and deceive us with anything they want. Perhaps a bit of shame and mistrust if they are caught out but never any real accountability or punishment for a breath of the public trust. As long as we ourselves can behave on an adversarial basis on any topic we feel entitled to take liberties with the truth and the reason is that we all know that knowledge is a kind of latent power which can be used for or against us. So we expect our government leaders to lie, lie and to keep lying, and simply not get caught out if in fact we think they are acting in our interests. It all comes from our own dishonesty with ourselves, our personal integrity or lack of it, and what we believe the purpose of human life actually is. It is not money which is the root of all evil. It is simply dishonesty with ourselves, with others, and with God.
This will not be reported in the UK press, lest the lies about UK ‘deaths’ be exposed.
even if it’s posted in the UK or elsewhere do you think the sheep would care?
It is what what many of us already knew, we just didn’t know the particular numbers. Kill them. Italians, channel the spirits of your ancestors and f***ing kill those demonic tyrants.