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“Thus, among the people who die in hospitals every day from a variety of causes, the number of expected COVID-19 deaths based on test positivity is approximately the same as the number of people being reported as having died because of COVID-19. Medically and epidemiologically, that is a near impossibility.”
“When community COVID-19 positivity increases, deaths increase even if new infections are no longer likely to cause those deaths. By routinely testing every newly hospitalized patient without changing how we count COVID-19 deaths, we will never see a reduction in the number of COVID-19 deaths below the expected proportion based on community positivity.”
“In addition, excess reported deaths likely exacerbate fear and COVID-19-related anxiety, contributing to the secondary crisis of mental health disorders.”




“In order to stop routinely testing all hospitalized patients for COVID-19, we must remove the perverse incentive of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, which provides hospitals an additional 20 percent compensation for Medicare patients diagnosed with COVID-19.”
“Regardless of strategy, we must end the recommended practice of adding COVID-19 as a contributing cause of death to every death certificate in all SARS-CoV-2 positive hospitalized patients. That practice is not only meaningless but also harmful.”
“When community COVID-19 positivity increases, deaths increase even if new infections are no longer likely to cause those deaths. By routinely testing every newly hospitalized patient without changing how we count COVID-19 deaths, we will never see a reduction in the number of COVID-19 deaths below the expected proportion based on community positivity.”
“In addition, excess reported deaths likely exacerbate fear and COVID-19-related anxiety, contributing to the secondary crisis of mental health disorders.”
“In order to stop routinely testing all hospitalized patients for COVID-19, we must remove the perverse incentive of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, which provides hospitals an additional 20 percent compensation for Medicare patients diagnosed with COVID-19.”
“Regardless of strategy, we must end the recommended practice of adding COVID-19 as a contributing cause of death to every death certificate in all SARS-CoV-2 positive hospitalized patients. That practice is not only meaningless but also harmful.”
Mandatory hospital screenings fuel inaccurate COVID death counts
We must end the recommended practice of adding COVID-19 as a contributing cause of death to every death certificate in all SARS-CoV-2 positive hospitalized patients.
thehill.com
