From Alex Berensen, who was interviewed on Mark Levin the other day -

@NYCMayor says the city will count people who died “indirectly” from #COVID in its ever-rising death counts. What does that even mean? Can we assume every person who dies in NYC will be counted as a virus death unless proven otherwise? And how far back will the backdating go?

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N.Y.C. Death Toll Soars Past 10,000 in Revised Virus Count

The city has added more than 3,700 additional people who were presumed to have died of the coronavirus but had never tested positive.

[www.nytimes.com]

New York City, already a world epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, sharply increased its death toll by more than 3,700 victims on Tuesday, after officials said they were now including people who had never tested positive for the virus but were presumed to have died of it.

The new figures, released by the city’s Health Department, drove up the number of people killed in New York City to more than 10,000, and appeared to increase the overall United States death count by 17 percent to more than 26,000.

This information is from another article I read today:

Florida had three deaths per 100,000 population as of Tuesday, while the similar figure was 56 for New York, 32 for New Jersey, 22 for Louisiana, and 18 for Michigan.

Is it too much to expect news coverage to provide such perspective in the midst of a pandemic?

Five states (New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Louisiana) had a combined 17,385 reported COVID-19 deaths as of Tuesday, according to CNN, and that total is 67 percent of all U.S. deaths from the virus.

So in other words --

Five States make up 67% of all US Deaths, so these five states are fudging their numbers to Hype Coronavirus and receive more money. They are NEW YORK STATE, NEW JERSEY, MASSACHUSETTS, MICHIGAN, LOUISIANA.

In other words: It's a racket!

New York Adds “Presumed” Coronavirus Cases to Its Death Toll – 3,700 New Deaths Added Today in Revised Count

[www.thegatewaypundit.com]

“These new presumed cases are mostly from ERs and hospitals, which means people weren’t getting tested even in those settings. Lots more were in nursing homes or other long-term care facilities,” NY Times reporter Kristen Danis said.

New York City, already a world epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, sharply increased its death toll by more than 3,700 victims on Tuesday, after officials said they were now including people who had never tested positive for the virus but were presumed to have died of it.

But for weeks, the Health Department also had been recording additional deaths tied to the virus, according to two people briefed on the matter. Those cases involved people who were presumed to have been infected because of their symptoms and medical history.

Officials in California and Seattle said they only included deaths connected to the Coronavirus when the virus was CONFIRMED with a test.

California has less than 800 Coronavirus deaths while New York has counted over 10,000 deaths related to COVID-19. Perhaps one reason why is how the deaths are being categorized?

As TGP previously reported, the amount of Americans who are reported to have died from the Coronavirus is based on a CDC coding system that will “result in COVID-19 being the underlying cause more often than not.

A new ICD code was established to keep track of Coronavirus deaths.

The U07.1 code will be used for death by Coronavirus infection.

However, there’s another secondary code, U07.2, “for clinical or epidemiological diagnosis of COVID-19 where a laboratory confirmation is inconclusive or not available,” the CDC guidelines read.

Is money a motivating factor in over counting COVID-19 cases?

Dr. Scott Jensen, a Minnesota physician and Republican state senator, told a local station he received a 7-page document coaching him to fill out death certificates with a COVID-19 diagnosis without a lab test to confirm the patient actually had the virus.

Dr. Jensen also disclosed that hospitals are paid more if they list patients with a COVID-19 diagnosis.

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Comments:

Doctors and Hospitals get 3x their normal fee if they dealt with a COVID patient.

Hospitals get $40k from the government (read taxpayers) for every recorded CV-19 death.

Yes, the care act gives a hospital much much more federal money for every COVID patient, and on a vent, and dead.

If someone died 5 years ago in NY, they're now a COVID death.

And still voting.