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This information has been circulating on blogspots through the internet claiming that from January 2020 to April 2021 only 152 people really died of Covid-19 - instead of the 17,000 people, which are the numbers confirmed by the Directorate General of Health (DGS). This would mean that the other cases would be from people who, although tested positive for Covid-19, could have died from any other reason.
However, this is completely out of context. After reading all the Lisbon court ruling (https://andre-dias.net/wp-content/uploads/Fwd-Sentenca.pdf), and analysing it very carefully, we found out that there are missing points that make all the difference.
The number of 152 deaths of Covid-19, presented in the judgment, is not fake, but it is based on a wrong premise – that all death certificates are issued by doctors who work for the Prosecutor’s office (MP), because it’s about these death certificates issued by doctors working in the MP that the judgment writes about. However, these doctors are not the only ones who are allowed to issue death certificates.
On the contrary, normally, in case of death, the patient usually was already being followed by a doctor and it is this same professional that issues the death certificate. The MP is only called when there is something indicating a death caused by a criminal act.
If the person dies at home, the doctor, who was following the patient, is called to go to that house and issue the death certificate at the location. On the other hand, if someone dies in the hospital, the hospital’s doctors themselves issued that certificate. In both cases, normal doctors don’t need the public prosecutor’s doctors to fulfill their mission.
In most cases, death has a natural cause and is a result of a diagnosed disease that evolves or worsens, of identified pathological antecedents. In these cases, the intervention of the MP is very rare, which explains the low number of death certificates issued by the MP related to Covid-19.
Therefore, it does not seem strange that in a universe of 17,000 deaths by Covid-19, only 152 were certified by the doctors of the MP, as apparently people were already being followed and nothing pointed to the possibility of death due to a crime that justifies the intervention of the MP.
The rule of the Administrative Court of Lisbon, in which this information comes from, began from a dispute due to the right to access to administrative information.
Paula Martins is a fully qualified journalist, who finds writing a means of self-expression. She studied Journalism and Communication at University of Coimbra and recently Law in the Algarve. Press card: 8252
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FINALLY SOME TRUTH BEING REPORTED ! ! !
By Tamsin from Lisbon on 09 Jul 2021, 00:14
152 vs 17,000
And the Winner is : 152 !
By David from Other on 09 Jul 2021, 00:16
And in turn, death certificates issued by doctors were not issued after autopsies, we have seen this all over the world where Covid was put as cause of death in spite of the real cause of death being any of hundreds of different co-morbidities (from heart failure to cancer etc).
By SS from Algarve on 09 Jul 2021, 07:54
In Sweden people who died in automobile car accidents and had flu or cold symptoms 30 days before the car crash died with covid the NHS says, same for heart attacks, cancer, stroke and old age deaths. What is going is that every death are added into covid 19 category in order to create false data, even a sniffle 30 days before death is now covid related.
17.000 post mortal examinations and extensive detailed autopsys should be made in Portugal to determine who died from which illness in 2020 and 2021.
By Magnus from Other on 09 Jul 2021, 09:29
The comments so far have not understood the article. The nr 152 was a "false" number, not the 17000. Cant expect people who cant read to know whats going on.
By Nick from Algarve on 09 Jul 2021, 20:26
Portugal’s “Sanitary Apartheid” has finally arrived.
Will we see whether the Portuguese finally wake up and take a stand instead of following this useless Government.
Hopefully so !
By Richard from Algarve on 10 Jul 2021, 13:44
Ladies and Gentlemen , we live in a fraud of unprecedented dimensions,
By Christian from Alentejo on 10 Jul 2021, 14:05
I notice that, while this article brings up the point that not all of the 17,000 number were examined by the Prosecutor’s office, it doesn't actually say how many cases WERE examined that produced the 152 number. Seems like an important data point, and I have to wonder if that was intentional.
By Wayne from USA on 30 Jul 2021, 16:54
Why don't you include the link to the court ruling? This way we can know what was actually sad and not the "truth" presented by the journalist or the "bad guys" willing to misinform all of us
By Emilio from Other on 07 Aug 2021, 08:32
As asked above, the data about the number of cases revewed by the mp is misding. We already know it's the same all over the world. Peoole die with positive pcr tests that have been nade months before they died and they are being counted as corina deaths. Here in Israel families vimplained they're dear ones died with negative pcr and yet the doctors wrote on death certifications "death by corona".
By Ana from Other on 16 Aug 2021, 07:27