Quit projecting. NYC is not the rest of the USA. Alabama is not NYC. California is not NYC. Stop it. NYC is dirty, crowded and unique. Unfortunately, that is where all the media lives.
as usual, accuse The President of making stuff up!
6 May: Business Insider: Trump reportedly believes — without evidence — that the US COVID-19 death toll is too high because hospitals are inflating their numbers to get more money
by Ashley Collman
President Donald Trump reportedly believes that the US coronavirus death count is being exaggerated, Axios reported Wednesday, citing unnamed senior administration officials.
The sources said the president and some of his aides believe that hospitals may be misdiagnosing patients with the coronavirus to get a 20% bonus from Medicare...
However, experts believe that the coronavirus death toll is being underreported, if anything...
There is no public evidence that hospitals have been abusing this system, USA Today reported...
It marks yet another example of Trump disagreeing with experts during the outbreak, from his recent speculation that the virus could just “disappear” to his constant pushing of a theory that the virus originated in a Wuhan lab...
A senior White House official defended the president’s thinking to Axios.
“Skepticism isn’t the right way to frame it. The numbers have been revised up to include presumptive cases — meaning deaths that are believed to be related to COVID but not known for sure,” the official said...
“So he’s expressed the need to properly convey that to American people so they’re not startled by why numbers ticked up.”...
In one example, Fox News analyst Brit Hume pushed a theory for an inflated death count, saying people with underlying conditions who die quickly after contracting coronavirus may have been killed by their own previous issues rather than the disease.
But Dr. Deborah Birx, one of the leading physicians advising the Trump administration during the outbreak, said that idea was wrong.
“Those individuals will have an underlying condition, but that underlying condition did not cause their acute death when it’s related to a COVID infection,” Birx said. “In fact, it’s the opposite.”
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-thinks-us-coronavirus-death-count-is-inflated-axios-2020-5?r=US&IR=T
8 Apr: Real Clear Politics: Dr. Birx: Unlike Some Countries, “If Someone Dies With COVID-19 We Are Counting That As A COVID-19 Death”
By Tim Hains
DR. DEBORAH BIRX: So, I think in this country we’ve taken a very liberal approach to mortality. And I think the reporting here has been pretty straightforward over the last five to six weeks. Prior to that when there wasn’t testing in January and February that’s a very different situation and unknown.
There are other countries that if you had a preexisting condition and let’s say the virus caused you to go to the ICU and then have a heart or kidney problem some countries are recording as a heart issue or a kidney issue and not a COVID-19 death. Right now we are still recording it and we will I mean the great thing about having forms that come in and a form that has the ability to market as COVID-19 infection the intent is right now that those if someone dies with COVID-19 we are counting that as a COVID-19 death.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/04/08/dr_birx_unlike_some_countries_if_someone_dies_with_covid-19_we_are_counting_that_as_a_covid-19_death.html
I’m not projecting.
I’m pointing-out that between mid-February and mid-April 15000 more people died in New York than typically die during that period in ordinary years.
You’re saying “It’s just the flu”. “Just the flu” killed an extra 250 people per day during that period.