[markman46]

this Dr is full of it!! everything in medicine is diagnostics driven, same with a death certificate, list primary cause secondary cause, hospital payments are all diagnostic driven for medicare. and subject to review by payors. and overpayments for any reason can be recovered up to 5 yrs after the fact.

[PeterPrinciple]

this Dr is full of it!! everything in medicine is diagnostics driven

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Maybe it used to be. But EVERYTHING IS POLITICAL now. We live in the present, not in the past.........................

[Svartalfiar]

this Dr is full of it!! everything in medicine is diagnostics driven, same with a death certificate, list primary cause secondary cause, hospital payments are all diagnostic driven for medicare. and subject to review by payors. and overpayments for any reason can be recovered up to 5 yrs after the fact.

No, it's not. Read one post above yours, from zeestephan. Do you know how many people actually die from confirmed flu a year? A couple hundred to maybe a thousand. The rest of the CDC's 50-60M "flu deaths this season" is people with pneumonia (also called influenza-like illness), or them "estimating" the data.

What about all those articles about nurses sending in blank samples or goat samples for COVID testing, that come back positive? How about the lady that completely skipped her testing appointment, and got a letter days later saying she was positive? What about CDC mentioning that the four common cold coronaviri can potentially cause you to test positive for the ChinaVirus? None of those sound properly "diagnostic-driven".

For any CDC reportable illnesses, there is no reliability on just a doctor diagnosis, if that's what you mean. You have to have tests and actual diagnostics run to confirm that the suspected illness is what's actually present.