certified as such

[GoodTaste]

Does "certified as such" mean "identified in this way (the younger the patients, the lower the death rate)" (The speaker means that the theoretical way of estimation is not very reliable and thus antibodies testing should be carried out)?

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India is reporting that its mortality rate is among the lowest in the world. Is that accurate?
The mortality per million people in India is expected to be lower because of the low average age of India’s population. (Older people are more likely to die from this infection.) So, we can take some comfort in the fact that deaths are fewer, especially in the rural population.


But the problem with death as an indicator is that a COVID-19 death has to be certified as such. The only way to do this is through an RT-PCR test (a reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction test, which looks for viral genetic material in nose and throat samples). And with a population of 1.3 billion, what do you think is the proportion of people that has access to this kind of testing? It is very low.

Source: Nature 26 JUNE 2020
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01865-w

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Yes.

 

[emsr2d2]

Does "certified as such" mean "identified in this way (the younger the patients, the lower the death rate)"

I'm not sure you meant to put the closing quotation marks where you did.

"But the problem with death as an indicator is that a COVID-19 death has to be certified as such" simply means "For a death to be counted as a COVID-19 death, that cause must be given on the death certificate". As a standalone sentence, it has nothing to do with the age of the patient or the death rate.

 

[GoesStation]

But the problem with death as an indicator is that a COVID-19 death has to be certified as such.

Does my highlighting clarify the sentence?

 

[GoodTaste]

Does my highlighting clarify the sentence?

Sorry. No. The explanaton given by Emsr2d2 and you doesn't appear to be consistent with the meaning of the previous passage in the OP very well. See #2 post by Charlie. It is a bit more complicated than you think.

But the Emsr's point that the sentence is standalone is very interesting.

 

[emsr2d2]

It is a bit more complicated than you think.

Well, I'll be happy for either you or Charlie to explain it to us.

 

[GoesStation]

Sorry. No. The explanaton given by Emsr2d2 and you doesn't appear to be consistent with the meaning of the previous passage in the OP very well. See #2 post by Charlie. It is a bit more complicated than you think.

I'm afraid you're wrong about this. "Such" replaces "a COVID-19 death". The sentence could be clumsily rewritten as "But the problem with death as an indicator is that a COVID-19 death has to be certified as a COVID-19 death." Certified means "officially recorded".

 

[Rover_KE]

Sorry. No. The explanaton given by emsr2d2 and you doesn't appear to be consistent with the meaning of the previous passage in the OP very well. See #2 post by Charlie. It is a bit more complicated than you think.

But emsr2d2's point that the sentence is standalone is very interesting.

;-)

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Sorry. I misunderstood the question. I looked at "identified in this way" but didn't consider the parts in parentheses.

It means the deaths need to be certified (proven and declared) to be from COVID-19.

 

[GoodTaste]

Normally that more context would help clarify things. The quality of being standalone of this sentence seems to defy it.

It is clear now that both emsr2d2 and GoesStation are correct here.

 

[Tdol]

In the UK, we have an aging population, but Covid-19 deaths are under-reported because not every dead person is tested. If we add unexpected death tolls to the official figures, we get a much worse death toll.

 

[emsr2d2]

However, there have also been reports of Covid being listed on a death certificate, particularly in care homes, even when no test has taken place.