Doctor Questions Death Toll: ‘Influenza Deaths … Have Been Called COVID-19’; Study: All-Cause Mortality Rate Is Lower Now Than in Recent Years
By Fox News. Dr. Scott Jensen, a Minnesota family physician and Republican state senator, told “The Ingraham Angle” Tuesday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines for doctors to certify whether a patient has died of coronavirus are a “mess” and predicted that some fatalities initially reported to be COVID-19-related would be reclassified.
“We both know,” Jensen told host Laura Ingraham, “that there have been influenza deaths, influenza cases, that have been called COVID-19 [deaths] because nobody bothered to swab their throats. If you want to find out what the data is, I don’t care if they’re dead or alive, swab them. We can always run a test later and then actually get real information.”
Earlier this month, Jensen told Ingraham that under the CDC guidelines, a patient who died after being hit by a bus and tested positive for coronavirus would be listed as having presumed to have died from the virus regardless of whatever damage was caused by the bus.
Jensen also gave a hypothetical example of a patient who died while suffering from influenza. If the patient was elderly and had symptoms like fever and cough a few days before passing away, the doctor explained, he would have listed “respiratory arrest” as the primary cause of death. (Read more from “Doctor Questions Death Toll: ‘Influenza Deaths … Have Been Called COVID-19′” HERE)
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Study: All-Cause Mortality Rate Is Lower Now Than in Recent Years
By The Blaze. According to the CDC, a large number of COVID-19 hospitalizations had at least one underlying condition. Yet, many doctors are recording deaths as coronavirus related without doing much to investigate the actual cause of death.
Consider this: When you visit your doctor you are always asked if you or a family member has been diagnosed with common health conditions. Each patient’s medical history provides your doctor with important information that directly affects the path taken for treatment.
By process of elimination, doctors can rule out common diseases and narrow down likely causes for illness.
Now, imagine being under the impression your mother or father died from COVID-19 when, in reality, it was hypertension or heart disease that caused the death of your loved one. (Read more from “Study: All-Cause Mortality Rate Is Lower Now Than in Recent Years” HERE)
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