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Topic	Coronavirus Episode 6: Return of the Jedi
SavageInTheBox 04/11/20 12:43:53 PM #393:	LordoftheMorons posted... Looks like coronavirus death tolls are being significantly underestimated based on NYC data: https://twitter.com/JustinWolfers/status/1248721936504500224 Oh I guess Corrik noted this too I or any NYPD cop could have told you this weeks ago. In 9 years as a cop, I have had maybe 10 jobs (911 call responses) that result in what we call a "DOA." These are almost exclusively people who live alone and die in their apartment and we find them a few days/weeks/months later. The process for us is to notify the precinct detective squad to come and investigate to make sure that the death isn't suspicious, then notify the medical examiner's office to basically do the same and authorize removal of the body. Then we get in touch with any family and see if there is an arrangement with a funeral home to pick up the body or if it's going to the morgue. The entire time, the room the body is in is treated as a crime scene. 99.9% of the time where someone is found unconscious and unresponsive, we will work on them until we get the faintest pulse possible and then take them to the hospital. If they die there, we don't do any of the steps I described above. In the occasions where somebody dies in their sleep and their family/roommates find them in the morning and there is nothing that can be done, we treat it like the people who live alone. We guard the body and keep all civilians away from it until the ME has a chance to examine it for foul play. Since coronavirus started, I have gone through this process probably 50 times. 50 times in a month after 10 times in 9 years. The only difference is, we don't go in the apartment. We don't keep family or roomates away from the body. Most of the time, the ME doesn't even respond to the scene and authorizes removal over the phone. People who might have been worked on and partially revived to be removed to the hospital are left to die. We have no fucking clue how many people are dying of coronavirus in NYC. It's a lot more than is being reported. <cite>SavageInTheBox posted [p:937194824] in Coronaviru... [t:78523738]...</cite> <quote>LordoftheMorons posted... </cite> <quote>Looks like coronavirus death tolls are being significantly underestimated based on NYC data: https://twitter.com/JustinWolfers/status/1248721936504500224 Oh I guess Corrik noted this too</quote> I or any NYPD cop could have told you this weeks ago. In 9 years as a cop, I have had maybe 10 jobs (911 call responses) that result in what we call a "DOA." These are almost exclusively people who live alone and die in their apartment and we find them a few days/weeks/months later. The process for us is to notify the precinct detective squad to come and investigate to make sure that the death isn't suspicious, then notify the medical examiner's office to basically do the same and authorize removal of the body. Then we get in touch with any family and see if there is an arrangement with a funeral home to pick up the body or if it's going to the morgue. The entire time, the room the body is in is treated as a crime scene. 99.9% of the time where someone is found unconscious and unresponsive, we will work on them until we get the faintest pulse possible and then take them to the hospital. If they die there, we don't do any of the steps I described above. In the occasions where somebody dies in their sleep and their family/roommates find them in the morning and there is nothing that can be done, we treat it like the people who live alone. We guard the body and keep all civilians away from it until the ME has a chance to examine it for foul play. Since coronavirus started, I have gone through this process probably 50 times. 50 times in a month after 10 times in 9 years. The only difference is, we don't go in the apartment. We don't keep family or roomates away from the body. Most of the time, the ME doesn't even respond to the scene and authorizes removal over the phone. People who might have been worked on and partially revived to be removed to the hospital are left to die. We have no fucking clue how many people are dying of coronavirus in NYC. It's a lot more than is being reported. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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