{"id":962390,"date":"2021-11-03T12:58:43","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T16:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=962390"},"modified":"2021-11-03T12:58:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T16:58:44","slug":"fact-check-did-italys-health-ministry-change-its-official-covid-19-death-toll-from-over-130000-to-3783","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-italys-health-ministry-change-its-official-covid-19-death-toll-from-over-130000-to-3783\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did Italy\u2019s Health Ministry Change Its Official COVID-19 Death Toll From Over 130,000 to 3,783?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-italys-health-ministry-change-its-official-covid-19-death-toll-from-over-130000-to-3783%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=962390&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/zach.evans.165\/posts\/4422711064479917\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims the Italian Ministry of Health revised its official COVID-19 death toll down from 130,000 to 3,783.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>No such revision occurred. The ministry continues to report there have been over 130,000 COVID-19 deaths in Italy.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The image shows what appears to be a screen grab of an Oct. 21 <a href=\"https:\/\/nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/geopolitics\/italy-reduces-covid-death-toll-from-130k-to-3-783\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a> published on the website Nexus Newsfeed that puts up the headline: \u201cItaly reduces covid death toll from 130k to 3,783.\u201d The Facebook post goes on to allege the revision of the numbers occurred in connection to&nbsp;a blockade of two of Italy\u2019s key ports by longshoremen protesting Italy\u2019s \u201cGreen Pass.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Green Pass is a mandatory pass all Italians must now have in order to work that shows they have been vaccinated against COVID-19, tested negative for the virus or previously contracted it and recovered, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-58590187\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC News<\/a>. &nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/10\/14\/fact-check-vaccinated-delta-pilot-died-mid-flight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/10\/14\/fact-check-vaccinated-delta-pilot-died-mid-flight\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1635888133780000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGfK5kqSphgp2ZyDrB8evRuKZyMSQ\">(RELATED: Viral Image Claims A Vaccinated Delta Pilot Recently Died Mid-Flight)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While dockworkers did, according to the Italian news wire service <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ansa.it\/english\/news\/general_news\/2021\/10\/21\/genoa-port-gate-cleared-of-green-pass-protestors_8e4b16b9-bea1-4685-97c7-182834e0dd9e.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ANSA<\/a>, protest the Green Pass in the Italian ports of Genoa and Trieste in October, there is no evidence these protests led to the Italian government revising its COVID-19 death toll. The number of reported COVID-19 deaths remains at over 132,000 deaths as of press time, according to the Italian Ministry of Health\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/opendatadpc.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/b0c68bce2cce478eaac82fe38d4138b1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>. The New York Times reported a similar number of deaths on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/world\/italy-covid-cases.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Nexus Newsfeed article cites an <a href=\"https:\/\/www-iltempo-it.translate.goog\/attualita\/2021\/10\/21\/news\/rapporto-iss-morti-covid-malattie-patologie-come-influenza-pandemia-disastro-mortalita-bechis-29134543\/?_x_tr_sl=it&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=it&amp;_x_tr_pto=nui\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oct. 21 article<\/a> from the Italian newspaper Il Tempo as the source of the claims. The Il Tempo article discussed an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epicentro.iss.it\/en\/coronavirus\/bollettino\/Report-COVID-2019_5_october_2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oct. 5 government report<\/a> from Italy\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iss.it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Istituto Superiore di Sanit\u00e0<\/a> (ISS) about the characteristics of COVID-19 patients who died in Italy based on data through Oct. 5. Open.online, an Italian fact-checking website, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.online\/2021\/10\/23\/covid-19-report-iss-tempo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">previously addressed<\/a> claims made in the Il Tempo article.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epicentro.iss.it\/en\/coronavirus\/bollettino\/Report-COVID-2019_5_october_2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oct. 5 ISS report<\/a>&nbsp;found that among a sample of 7,910 documented COVID-19 deaths in hospitals in Italy, only 2.9 percent of those had no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2713155\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">comorbidities<\/a>. The 3,783 figure cited in the Facebook post appears to be the result of applying this 2.9 percent to the entire Italian COVID-19 death toll, which at the time of the report\u2019s publication was about 130,000.<\/p>\n<p>The ISS has refuted the interpretation that the data means only about 3,700 people in Italy actually died of COVID-19, saying in an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/istsupsan\/status\/1452670930984095749\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oct. 25 tweet<\/a>, \u201cIt is not true that only 2.9% of deaths attributed to Covid19 are due to the virus.\u201d The ISS said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iss.it\/comunicati-stampa\/-\/asset_publisher\/fjTKmjJgSgdK\/content\/id\/5868665?_com_liferay_asset_publisher_web_portlet_AssetPublisherPortlet_INSTANCE_fjTKmjJgSgdK_redirect=https:\/\/www.iss.it\/comunicati-stampa%3Fp_p_id%3Dcom_liferay_asset_publisher_web_portlet_AssetPublisherPortlet_INSTANCE_fjTKmjJgSgdK%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26_com_liferay_asset_publisher_web_portlet_AssetPublisherPortlet_INSTANCE_fjTKmjJgSgdK_cur%3D0%26p_r_p_resetCur%3Dfalse%26_com_liferay_asset_publisher_web_portlet_AssetPublisherPortlet_INSTANCE_fjTKmjJgSgdK_assetEntryId%3D5868665\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release<\/a> that \u201cthe joint ISTAT-ISS reports drawn up on the basis of death certificates show that COVID-19 is the directly responsible cause of death in 89% of deaths of people positive to the SARS-CoV-2 test,\u201d according to a translation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe report does not state that only 2.9% of deaths attributed to Covid-19 are due to the virus. The percentage of 2.9%, also reported in previous editions, refers to the percentage of patients who died with positivity for SARS-CoV-2 who had no other pathologies diagnosed before the infection,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iss.it\/comunicati-stampa\/-\/asset_publisher\/fjTKmjJgSgdK\/content\/id\/5868665?_com_liferay_asset_publisher_web_portlet_AssetPublisherPortlet_INSTANCE_fjTKmjJgSgdK_redirect=https:\/\/www.iss.it\/comunicati-stampa%3Fp_p_id%3Dcom_liferay_asset_publisher_web_portlet_AssetPublisherPortlet_INSTANCE_fjTKmjJgSgdK%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26_com_liferay_asset_publisher_web_portlet_AssetPublisherPortlet_INSTANCE_fjTKmjJgSgdK_cur%3D0%26p_r_p_resetCur%3Dfalse%26_com_liferay_asset_publisher_web_portlet_AssetPublisherPortlet_INSTANCE_fjTKmjJgSgdK_assetEntryId%3D5868665\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ISS press release<\/a> also said, per a translation. \u201cMoreover, the figure is confirmed by the observation made since the early stages of the pandemic and widely reported in various national and international studies and reports also by the ISS, that having pre-existing diseases is a risk factor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/need-extra-precautions\/people-with-medical-conditions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has also long said<\/a> elderly people and people with certain medical conditions such as cancer, chronic liver disease, diabetes and heart issues are more likely to get severely ill or die from COVID-19. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2020\/08\/31\/fact-check-cdc-revise-coronavirus-death-count-9120-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did The CDC Revise Its COVID-19 Death Count To Show That Only 9,120 People \u2018Actually Died\u2019 From COVID-19?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2020\/08\/31\/fact-check-cdc-revise-coronavirus-death-count-9120-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Check Your Fact<\/a> debunked a similar claim that alleged the CDC had \u201cquietly updated\u201d its coronavirus death count to show that only 9,210 people \u201cactually died\u201d from COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook claims the Italian Ministry of Health revised its official COVID-19 death toll down from 130,000 to 3,783.Verdict: False No such revision occurred. 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