According to data from the City Office: for June, three times more deaths than the official figure – the Society

Epidemiologist Predrag Kon stated, as a guest on the NewsMax Adria Day Review, that according to his research, based on data from the City’s Institute of Public Health, from March to June, there were three times more deaths than the system collected and announced officially. that is, what is reported in writing.

Photo by Predrag Kon: Beta / Government of Serbia / Slobodan Miljevic

According to H1, Kon also said there was a problem in the information system.

– Now I can say that the data is very approximate and very precise, said Kon.

According to them, the weekly NIN announced that in July, when Serbia faced a new coronavirus attack, at least 100,000 fewer tests were carried out than those shown by official data. When it comes to patients, that number has dropped.

– It should be understood: there is something that applies during the event itself. We are using an information system for the first time. That information system at one point was not accurate enough and I can’t say why, so sometime since mid-June it wasn’t accurate. Looking at everything that happened, it became clear that there is a difference between what we at the Belgrade level determine as cases and, especially, deaths. Deaths cannot be accurately reported unless a certain period has elapsed. Only in two months, the data entered in the death certificate are returned. Now the data for June will arrive. I processed the data in June. In June, in summary, there were three times more deaths than were reported in writing. That happens all the time, Kon noted.

Kon said the problem was a computer program.

– We have never worked according to that system, until now there has never been such a supervision system, we have something else that works regularly, but now it is impossible for it to work because now it is massive and we have to adapt, said the epidemiologist.

According to Kon, in this case, an information system was developed without which epidemiologists could not work, emphasizing that initially there were no covid clinics and that they could not work on data collection, especially since this data did not arrive. ” reports of infectious diseases. diseases – did not come at all. “

Kon says that in his research he used mortality statistics and DN2 patterns, and data from the City Institute of Public Health. The death certificate has three parts: the immediate, basic and indirect cause of death, he said, adding that they arrive after two months.

What is published directly is what is in the information system, that is one thing and an extract of data from the written system is another, he adds.

Kon says that the data reaches the City Office after two days, and that the data that can now be seen on the covid.rs website is very similar and that as far as Belgrade is concerned, “it fits into this. “. “Now I can say that the data is very approximate and very accurate. “Whether a case occurs or not, we will see later.”

He states that in his investigation, from March to June, he found 210 deaths that were written on the death certificate as the immediate or main cause of death for kovid 19, and that 118 of those cases were officially notified.

“In addition, I found 29 deaths in the same period from viral pneumonia and I found an excess of deaths from non-marked pneumonia, that is, non-bacterial, 102 cases were in excess, but we cannot say that 102 were from kovid, but a number significant”. Kon stated.

The epidemiologist says that when “total mortality is monitored from one year to another, the average before 2020 is compared, and there are 345 people in excess mortality for the entire period.”

Just to find out what happens in all epidemics, he added.

Only in one school has it been proven that the transmission occurred in the school, and that the rest was brought in from outside, and that it is important that these cases are discovered and isolated, Kon said.

There is enough evidence and that is not a problem, the problem is that there are more acute respiratory infections at this time of year and we do not have enough people to work so hard, Kon replied, noting that journalist Dusan Cavic explained what his case was like – yes his son was not sent for tests, after the doctor heard him.

The system is designed for all children who have problems to go into isolation, and this is a tip for parents: every child who has a fever, cough and if he says he has no taste or smell, should be treated as possibly infected, the child should be taken with a halt. temperature at the kovid clinic, “they have many ways to decide,” he said.

He stated that the system works, that you just have to respect it, reports H1.

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