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Are you forgetting that US hospitals are marking people who are dying of alcohol poisoning and heart disease as Covid deaths? Even when they are not tested! (ht
by hayez1 6y ago
Are you forgetting that US hospitals are marking people who are dying of alcohol poisoning and heart disease as Covid deaths? Even when they are not tested! (https://www.foxnews.com/media/physician-blasts-cdc-coronavirus-death-count-guidelines https://www.foxnews.com/media/physician-blasts-cdc-coronavir...)
- wwweston 6y agohttps://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/hospital-payments-and-the-covid-19-death-count/ https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/hospital-payments-and-the-... https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/14/candace-owens/covid-19-skeptics-say-theres-overcount-doctors-fie/ https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/14/candace-ow... https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/medicare-hospitals-covid-patients/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/medicare-hospitals-covid-p... Many doctors think there's actually an undercount as they discover ways in which the disease can present differently than severe respiratory distress, or look at guidelines that may have led to incorrectly ruling out a case. Of course, be sure to save some of that skepticism for ways in which a fee-for-service medical system can bend treatment large and small when this is all over.