...All of these stats are cooked since hospitals were being threatened with bankruptcy since people weren't out doing dumb crap to end up in their emergency rooms. They saw a lifeline in the form of federal relief dollars and all they had to do was check one little box for a patient: cough, difficulty breathing or fever. Regardless of if the patient was tested for the virus or not... Bam! $8k give or take. This repeated for each case. So you take an admin who is faced with laying off long-time employees and good doctors because they can't make ends meet and show them this and the results have been obvious. An unintended consequence has resulted in our numbers being skewed since people who had a cough, shortness of breath or a fever before dying (most people do unless it's a sudden death caused by accident) they were ruled COVID19 since it got the hospital extra federal relief dollars...
This conspiracy theory cannot explain why the famous
University of Washington Medicine that has been at the forefront is now laying off its staff due to short funding.
For hospitals, listing Covid-19 as a diagnosis is not a money-making scheme.
To make money, they need to list such things as: cataract surgery, knee replacement, gastric bypass... all those elected procedures that could be nicely scheduled, and not the abrupt unscheduled emergency Covid-19!
By the way, Long Term Care facilities were not required to report Covid-19 and very few would voluntarily disclose the numbers.
If they would make more money with Covid-19, they wouldn't have to hide those numbers and
hid bodies in a shed.
After the outcry, nursing homes are reporting the numbers but Trump does not require them to report Covid-19 number occurred prior to May 6th, 2020.
Evidence throughout the world shows that Covid-19 deaths are undercounted and not inflated.
