its the way the funding works. If someone with heart problems goes to the hospital and dies from a heart attack, and they test positive for Covid, it’s counted as a Covid death. Covid exacerbated the heart problems and the hospital deserves funding for treating that patient for Covid, even though he technically died from heart disease. Lots of people with Covid died from other factors that wasn’t Covid, but if they treat someone for 2 weeks and that person ultimately dies of a stroke, the hospital still needs to recoup themselves for resources spent treating Covid. This type of funding can easily be corrupted and misused, so it isn’t a stretch for some people to want the funding to be monitored better. It’s not like our government and private business has been super honest about our money over the years. The trust that Dems have in our institutions is puzzling to me a bit. Prior to Obama, one of the staples of liberals was to question authority relentlessly. Now, that same authority cant be questioned, because apparently their facts are now gospel. The national politics has flipped in a really weird way.