{"id":208122,"date":"2020-06-01T07:14:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T07:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=208122"},"modified":"2020-06-04T07:12:59","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T07:12:59","slug":"man-dies-with-whopping-55-blood-alcohol-level-was-reportedly-listed-as-a-covid-fatality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=208122","title":{"rendered":"Man Dies with Whopping .55 Blood Alcohol Level, Was Reportedly Listed as a COVID Fatality"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Tathasta \u2013 May 31, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The state of Colorado reportedly added a man who died of acute alcohol poisoning to its coronavirus death toll even before the county coroner could sign his death certificate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Police in Cortez, Colorado, found Sebastian Yellow dead in Cortez City Park on the morning of May 4, according to\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/denver.cbslocal.com\/2020\/05\/14\/coronavirus-montezuma-county-coroner-alcohol-poisoning-covid-death\/\">KCNC-TV<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Montezuma County Coroner George Deavers found that Yellow\u2019s blood alcohol content measured at .55, so he determined that his death was caused by acute alcohol poisoning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cIt was almost double what the minimum lethal amount was in the state,\u201d Deavers said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Following his death, Yellow tested positive for COVID-19, so the\u00a0Colorado\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Department of Public Health and Environment categorized his death as one caused by the novel coronavirus, according to Deavers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cI can see no reason for this,\u201d Deavers told KCNC-TV, adding that he hadn\u2019t even gotten to sign the death certificate before the conclusion was made<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What killed Sebastian Yellow? Coroner says the man drank himself to death with .550 blood alcohol reading-&#39;ethanol toxicity&#39; reads death certificate. But <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CDPHE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CDPHE<\/a> has categorized it as a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID19<\/a> death,  raising many questions. Our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSDenver?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CBSDenver<\/a> report:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w5dHyT24wk\">https:\/\/t.co\/w5dHyT24wk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/viEClhYeBX\">pic.twitter.com\/viEClhYeBX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brian Maass (@Briancbs4) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Briancbs4\/status\/1261091625368907776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cIt wasn\u2019t COVID, it was alcohol toxicity,\u201d Deavers said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cYes, he did have COVID but that is not what took his life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This case is just one of many instances that caused Colorado to update its\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/colorado-makes-huge-change-number-covid-deaths-raises-questions-mortality-rate\/\">coronavirus death toll<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, saying that 272 fewer people than originally reported had died from COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The CDPHE changed the statistics on May 15.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">As of Saturday, the agency\u2019s \u201c<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/covid19.colorado.gov\/data\/case-data\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>case data<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u201d website said 1,181 people had died \u201cfrom COVID-19\u201d and 1,436 people had died \u201camong people with COVID-19.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Along with the statistics change, the CDPHE said starting May 15, it would report the number of\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/colorado-couple-vows-take-decisive-action-pays-entire-countys-coronavirus-testing\/\">deaths<\/a>\u00a0in the two separate categories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cWe have been reporting at the state, deaths among people who had COVID-19 at the time of death and the cause of that death may or not have been COVID-19,\u201d Dr. Eric France, the agency\u2019s chief medical officer, told\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/kdvr.com\/news\/coronavirus\/fewer-covid-19-deaths-reported-in-colorado-after-health-department-changes-fatality-categorization\/\">KDVR<\/a>\u00a0at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The discrepancy also came in part because of how the state reports statistics to the federal National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, according to France.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cHaving these two systems in place has potentially created some confusion and we apologize for that,\u201d state epidemiologist Dr. Rachel Herlihy said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The state added that this change \u201cdoes not unilaterally change information on death certificates and does not question or try to change a physician\u2019s diagnosis or causes-of-death determination.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Colorado Gov. Jared Polis\u2019 office released a statement earlier this month addressing the confusion and changes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cThe Governor applauds efforts to ensure that we are as transparent as possible with our reporting and therefore fully supports efforts by CDPHE to specify how many deaths are specifically due to COVID-19 and not just specific to CDC guidelines that include people who died with Coronavirus but not necessarily from it. What we are seeing today is a reflection of that,\u201d the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Colorado is not the only state that has had to change its coronavirus death statistics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Pennsylvania Health Department officials\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/pennsylvania-takes-hundreds-probable-covid-deaths-off-books-coroners-come-forward\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>removed over 200 probable deaths<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0from their official tally on April 23 in what they said was an effort to be transparent after state coroners pointed to inconsistencies with the state\u2019s\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/us-sees-significant-easter-downturn-coronavirus-deaths-new-cases\/\">death<\/a>\u00a0counts and what they had recorded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tathasta.com\/2020\/05\/man-dies-with-whopping-55-blood-alcohol.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coroner ascribed Sebastian Yellow\u2019s death to acute alcohol poisoning. 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