Dying from a traffic accident could be listed as COVID-19 death

Why is it that long past the peak of the virus, the number of deaths continues to skyrocket beyond what the revised government models predicted?

A man lies dead in the street: The image that captures the Wuhan coronavirus crisis

The Washington Post reported that Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House Coronavirus Task Force response administrator, is accusing the CDC of using an antiquated model to track coronavirus deaths that could be responsible for inflating the death numbers by as much as 25 percent. The Post cites four unnamed sources who reported a dispute between Birx and Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), over the modeling.

If the 25% inflation number is true, that would place the total deaths closer to the 66,000 death figure that the government predicted in April.

We need not rely on an off-the-record citation from the Washington Post to know that where there is smoke, there is fire. Birx already publicly admitted in April that the CDC is telling states to code any death of an individual who tests positive for COVID-19 as a coronavirus death, even if it is not proven that the death was caused by COVID-19.

The problem is now that we know the virus is so much more widespread than previously thought, and therefore so much less deadly, how can we assume that anyone who merely tests positive for the virus died because of the virus? This is especially true now that we know that the majority of those who test positive for coronavirus in areas where everyone is tested (ships, meatpacking plants, and prisons, for example) are asymptomatic.

This was always the vexing question concerning the death count, but it has become even more

troubling now that deaths continue to surge long past the peak of the virus and with hospitaliza-

tions way down. We got the answer to this question last week when it became apparent that the

overwhelming majority of deaths in recent days have been in nursing homes. In some states,

more than 100% of reported deaths on a given day are in nursing homes, because they are now

retroactively adding previously undeclared deaths as nursing home deaths.

The fact that states are just backfilling so many deaths of nursing home patients makes the

numbers even more suspicious. There certainly is a terrible tragedy unfolding in senior facilities

partiality due to states demanding that these facilities take in coronavirus patients. It wasn’t until

May 10 that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo rescinded the order forcing nursing homes into this

suicidal policy.

Undoubtedly, many people have died from the virus in these facilities. The official count from 39

states that have reported data broken down by long-term senior care facility shows that 52% of

all deaths nationwide have been in nursing homes, according to a spreadsheet prepared by Phil

Kerpen.

We now know that states either mandated the return of hospitalized COVID-19 patients into

nursing homes or gave no guidance to nursing homes on what to do with those who tested pos-

itive. As the Washington Post reports, while “Lockdown Larry” Hogan was locking down an en-

tire state, “there was no process in place to ensure that the facility [in La Plata, Maryland, with

[the most COVID-19 deaths] received test results for residents, the regulators found, exacerbat-

ing the spread of the virus throughout the month of April.” Now more than 60% of the state’s

deaths have been in these facilities, over 80% in some counties.

However, we must not forget that as dangerous as COVID-19 is to nursing home residents, it

does not have a 100% fatality rate. According to Colorado Public Radio, the state has tested

“nearly 1,900 asymptomatic staff and residents at six large elder-care facilities since April 19.”

Yet at the same time, we know that 65% of nursing home residents die every year within a year

of admission and 52% within six months. Overall, roughly one-quarter of the approximately 2.8

million annual fatalities in this country occur in a senior care facility. That’s nearly 13,500 a

week. We also know that once COVID-19 gets into a nursing home, it’s likely that a majority, if

not nearly all of the residents will test positive. It’s therefore inconceivable that those coding the

deaths are not liberally adding in those who died from a stroke, heart attack, or Alzheimer’s (“old

age”) simply because they tested positive.

Remember, included in the state’s senior care facility death numbers (colloquially referred to as

“nursing home deaths”) are also hospices. The Illinois health director Dr. Ngozi Ezike, admitted

(VIDEO below) that “if you were in hospice and had already been given a few weeks to live and

then you also were found to have COVID, that would be counted as a COVID death.”

How dying from a traffic accident could be listed as COVID-19 death

As reported on May 7, the number of New York long-term care facility deaths that are listed as

“presumed” are greater than the number of “confirmed” deaths, yet the presumed numbers are

all included in the national tally you see on the news every day.

Also, remember, the presumed numbers are for those who did not test positive. However, there

is less focus on those who did test positive and contracted an asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic

illness and, sadly, like so many in hospices or nursing homes, passed away from a myriad of

other causes. Every one of those people is being listed as a confirmed COVID-19 death!

Thus, at this point, according to the state data, we can say with certainty that at least 40,000 of

the 80,000 reported national COVID-19 deaths were recorded among nursing home patients

and that a certain number of overall deaths have been inflated, potentially dramatically so in

nursing homes.

If you take New York City and its surrounding environs plus nursing homes out of the equation,

most of the rest of the country experienced a plague less devastating than the 2018 flu season,

which killed 60,000. And the overwhelming majority of the remaining casualties had multiple co-

morbidities.

The reason our government is not putting out more precise and accurate data is because if it

did, it would be a national scandal that we destroyed an entire country for a crisis largely con-

fined to nursing homes.

The people would know that the same politicians who spent months locking down every play-

ground for people and in places where there is near-zero threat of death forgot to put the fire out

where it was actually raging.