So you talked to dad 5 days after he died?
Or the death was 5 days after the conversation?
BTW, condolences, man. It's not like it's not going to happen, we all know it...but it's still tough.
Here's some fun reading from Utah.
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If an individual tests positive for COVID-19 and then dies, EpiTrax and Vital Records link the patient as a COVID-19 death, even if the death certificate doesn't list COVID-19. COVID-19 deaths are only ruled out if the Office of the Medical Examiner determines the death was not caused by COVID-19 upon further investigation.
.....the Utah Department of Heath believes the number of deaths due to COVID-19 not captured in our data is very small."
Then here are the numbers:
https://coronavirus.utah.gov/case-counts/
70,615 Total COVID-19 Cases
3,729 Total COVID-19 Hospitalizations
That's a rate of 5.3% for hospitalization.
Considering the CDC fact that 94% of Covid deaths are really comorbidity deaths, chances are good that a LARGE number of them were already in the hospital, or in care of some sort..
453 Total COVID-19 Deaths
That's about 0.5% for a death rate. NOT a half a percent of the population...that's a half a percent of those that we know GOT the Covid....which may be a FAR larger number as many people out here simply don't get tested.
811,249 Total People Tested
1,046,616 Total Tests Reported
Of the 811,249, there's about 9% infection rate. Or 6.8% of the 1+ million tests were positive. 91-93% of the people tested weren't even infected.
235,367 people got tested more than once. Probably health care or first responders, I know a girl that's been tested 15 times for her job in an old folks home, but she's in Colorado. A guy I know had a baby in Colorado, Preemie and needed to be moved by helicopter from one hospital to another for some unknown reason...they tested the kid before he got on, and immediately after he got off the bird.
Finally, here's the chart. Green is recovered, Orange are active cases, and deaths are the Red line you can barely see. Note how they stack it on top to make it look like its large. It's NOT. And this is a CUMULATIVE chart!!!!!!
It's NOT getting worse like this seems to show. It IS getting worse in the number of cases, thanks to the counties with colleges, in populations that are mostly asymptomatic, and will recover at a 99.8% rate. But it's mostly just flat in most of the state, The rest of us are fine.