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_Supposedly_ American hospitals are financially incentivized to count deaths as coronavirus if possible.

• ska 7y ago
  Has there been any actual evidence of this? What is the mechanism by which they get paid this way?
  • notyourday 7y ago
    As the part of the CARES laws feds backstopped hospital expenses associated with COVID-19 treatment. As soon as the emergency was declared administrators knew at some point it would be paid.
    • ska 7y ago
      Fair enough, but it's a long way from there to suggesting that there is intentional misclassification. Anything other than a general cynicism to back this?
• nenadst 7y ago
  from the article : To calculate excess deaths, the FT has compared deaths from _all causes_ in the weeks of a location’s outbreak in March and April 2020 to the average for the same period between 2015 and 2019. so they are not counting only coronavirus related deaths but all
  • Drdrdrq 7y ago
    I would assume corona-side-effects (depression and domestic violence because of forced isolation, deaths from other causes due to lack of medical workers, stress, less healthy lifestyle, economic reasons,...?) to be a major factor too. It will be interesting to see if anyone has the courage to investigate all the causes of deaths when (if?) this madness is over.