In Washington State the health departments and hospitals have been caught doing the same thing, along with a bunch of heart attack, cancer, drug overdose, motor vehicle accidents and other deaths included in the count as well. Before the PCR tests with incredibly high false positive rates came along, these types of “cases” were called “presumptive” Covid deaths. This has been a farce from day 1.
Hey $38K subsidy per COVID-19 victim is nothing to sneeze at!