Hospitals are inflating the Covid-19 case counts and the death toll (proper source links in the story links to mediums Covid blog)
This is slap in the face for scientists and healthcare professionals, only partly because
it’s not true, but especially if you’re a doctor or nurse watching more than 1,000 of your U.S. colleagues die from the disease while you work your ass off trying to save people — some of whom believe in
Covid-19 misinformation and conspiracy theories like this and refuse to wear masks or otherwise take the disease seriously.
Anyway, here’s the debunking data, revealed in not just
one recent study but
two: Through Oct. 3 this year, there were nearly 300,000 excess deaths compared to the relatively stable YTD average from 2015 to 2019. Only about 200,000 of those excess deaths were officially chalked up to Covid-19. The rest? A mix of Covid deaths that weren’t counted as such and deaths from other causes owing, in large part, to people not seeking or receiving proper medical care and succumbing to heart attacks, cancers and other ills that could have been prevented in non-pandemic times.