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A report from two months ago warned: Failures in receiving mortality data from Corona at the Ministry of Health

A document from the Knesset Research Center warned as early as June of problems in absorbing data from deaths from the virus in nursing homes. According to the report, the ministry's calculations include only deaths diagnosed on the basis of a laboratory test and data from hospital reports only. After the incident - the Ministry of Health updated: 781 died from corona from the outbreak of the plague

• Ministry of Health
• Corona virus
• Hezi Levy
• July Edelstein

Boaz Efrat

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The Ministry of Health is conducting an investigation into the reasons that led to the omission of 53 coronary deaths in geriatric institutions, but a report by the Knesset Research Center warned of such a situation two months ago. The document, signed on June 17, raises the question of how accurately the data on the dead reflect the situation, and whether there are dead people who are suspected of having died of the corona virus and have no information about them.

The report states that "data from the Ministry of Health on corona virus deaths include only deaths diagnosed on the basis of a laboratory test, and do not include dead people who were suspected of dying from the coronavirus and not tested in a laboratory test. According to the Ministry of Health. The patients. "

According to the Ministry of Health, according to the guidance of the Ministry, every patient who is suspected of being infected with the virus is tested by Corona. If a patient is hospitalized and dies before the test result arrives, the information about him is updated in the system retrospectively. The ministry said that until June 15, he was aware of two such cases. In the present case, these are 53 cases that occurred in the months of July-August alone.

However, researcher Flora Koch Devidovich raised the question: Are all patients who are suspected of having had a corona actually examined, and if there are patients who died before being examined by a corona and therefore it is not possible to know whether they had a corona or not? As for the dead in the community, the Ministry of Health replied that it did not have data on those who died as a result of Corona and were not tested in a laboratory test for the virus.

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Davydovich's question raised another question - were there such dead. As presented in a previous Knesset research and information center document, the number of deaths in Israel received from the Ministry of Religious Affairs was higher than data from the Ministry of Health, as they included deaths suspected of being infected with the virus. According to data from the Ministry of Health in March-April, 223 corona patients died in Israel, while according to data from the Ministry of Religious Affairs, HaMoked treated the evacuation of 216 verified dead and 46 with concern for corona. The Ministry of Health said no deaths had been reported to the ministry as blue suspects in Corona.

The Ministry of Health said at the time that data on corona virus deaths were based on hospital reports. From the available data it is not possible to learn whether corona is the fundamental cause of death of these dead, i.e. whether it is the cause of the chain of events that led to death. Today, the Central Bureau of Statistics does not yet have a classification of deaths in Israel in 2020 according to the cause of death - a classification it compiles on the basis of death notices - and this is a complex process that takes time.

Asked by the center whether corona was the underlying cause of death of all corona virus deaths, the Ministry of Health replied on May 26 that "most corona virus deaths were with background diseases and corona was defined as a major cause of death."

This morning the Ministry of Health announced that it found that in July and August 53 dead were missing from the Corona Fathers and Mothers project, and in the evening updated that the number of deaths updated since the outbreak was 781. Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said he took the matter very seriously. Face the recommendations within a week, including personal recommendations if necessary.

At the same time, the Director General of the Ministry of Health, Prof. Hezi Levy, ordered that the reports of deaths from Corona be consolidated into a uniform source of reporting for all medical institutions, including geriatric institutions that will be reflected in the Ministry of Health's computerized system.

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