Posted on 01/15/2023 8:42:18 PM PST by SeekAndFind
We’re still only on the first steps of the road to learning how badly the COVID pandemic was handled by the government, the media, and, well… pretty much everyone. But the veil is slowly being lifted regarding some of the unforced errors that were made. Even the legacy media is starting to admit that a serious math error took place alongside the many other errors being discovered. Specifically, the total count of COVID hospitalizations and deaths being reported was obviously far higher than it should have been. At Townhall, our colleague Sarah Arnold reports that a CNN medical specialist and Washington Post columnist has been allowed to speak the truth. Many of the people hospitalized “for COVID” sought medical care for entirely different reasons, and many of the dead did not actually die from COVID or anything related to it.
Nearly two years after the Covid-19 pandemic, CNN medical analyst and Washington Post columnist Dr. Lena Wen admitted that hospitals were exaggerating the number of deaths they claimed was from Covid.
Titled, “We Are Over-Counting COVID Deaths and Hospitalizations. That’s a Problem,” Wren acknowledged that “90 percent of patients diagnosed with COVID are actually in the hospital for some other illness.”
“Since every hospitalized patient gets tested for covid, many are incidentally positive,” Wren wrote, citing Robin Dretler, an attending physician at Emory Decatur Hospital.
As Sarah points out, while this admission may be a welcome step toward setting the record straight, it’s coming out two years too late. Those death and hospitalization figures were used to justify all manner of government overreach and oppression. Learning these facts now will not do anything to change the past.
So how could the math possibly have been so wrong? That’s easy enough to explain. Every patient or body showing up at a hospital or a morgue was tested for COVID. If the test came back positive, that person was added to the count. So a nearly asymptomatic person who was hit by a car and died was added to the death toll. A patient admitted to the hospital with a knife wound to the stomach who tested positive was listed as another “COVID hospitalization.”
It’s not as if at least some of us didn’t already know this. There were people, including leading doctors and virologists, who were talking about this all through 2021. Or at least they were trying to talk about it. You didn’t hear a peep about this on MSNBC or CNN unless it was a segment calling out “misinformation.” Dr. Robert Malone, an actual mRNA vaccine research scientist, was banned from Twitter for trying to bring up this issue. (He was reinstated after Musk took over.)
Keep in mind that we’re talking about the period in 2021 when the virus was still running wild. Pandemic porn was at a premium on cable news outlets and in the larger newspapers. Andrew Cuomo was still giving his Emmy-winning (later rescinded) daily pandemic updates and being touted as the nation’s “shadow president.” CNN kept a running count of the deaths and hospitalizations in the upper right corner of the screen 24/7 no matter what story they were currently covering.
It was all vastly exaggerated and plenty of experts knew it. But nobody wanted to talk about it. Pandemic porn translated into ratings and rising numbers justified ever-increasing levels of government actions, from lockdowns to school closures to immunity passports to mandates and more. If you go through and subtract out all of the false positives, it now seems nearly certain that COVID will have turned out to be not all that much worse than the common flu. The only difference was that large swaths of the population were already either vaccinated against the flu or had developed their own natural immunity after surviving it. Nobody had immunity to COVID, so of course the first wave would hit us harder.
There are going to be a lot of people with much to answer for when all of this is said and done. Will any of them be held accountable? Don’t hold your breath. (And if you do hold your breath for too long, you’ll probably be taken to the emergency room and counted as another “COVID hospitalization.”)
That’s a lot of crap I didn’t read . Had covid and dead. RIP me. Thanks for your condolences.
...and it was all “miscalculated” for political gain.
I consistently guessed only 20% had a real case.
And now they need to admit the plandemic was hyped and spiked in order to convince its listeners (few as they may be) that in order to survive they will need to be injected with an untested clot shot.
The rest, is history!
“90 percent of patients diagnosed with COVID are actually in the hospital for some other illness.”
Duh. We’ve known this from the beginning. Go in for a collapsed lung, but test positive, die from collapsed lung and your death certificate will say cause of death is COVID. All about the money.
Checked using a test with a 50% false positive rate BEFORE they ran a dozen or more cycles than they should have. A test which should not have been used to begin with according to its developer.
A test that they are STILL using.
Sorry for your loss.
:’^(
So are the hospitals going to give back the billions in incentive pay for diagnosing people with influenza, pneumonia etc. as ‘Covid’ instead?
they claimed that what? 1 Million folks died of covid in US? That woudl mean that covid deaths were only around 90,000 then? A Basically normal flu season death rate @ the higher end then?
90% was my guess.
Hospitals will also answer for keeping COVID patients hostage and not allowing ivermectin to be administered.
They should answer for the protocols I believe are STILL in use regarding Remdesivir and vents!
Just as we knew all along.
We “antivaxers” are being vindicated by the day.
and how many of the deaths after the vax roll-outs were caused by the shots?
at this point, given there was virtually NO flu in 2020, and that PCR test is cr@p, and they never isolated the “virus”, I’m wondering if they made up the whole Narrative..
and, in reality it could have been a Flu + Fear power grab.
I’m not believing anything in the news, and questioning lots of past incidents :
JFK
Twin Towers
Vegas shooting
July 20, 1969
on and on....
How is this news now?, this has been known for years.
The caveat was all “with” vivid, not “from” covid.
Control, control, control.
Never trust a government agency. Of course, the medical community is just an extension of government now.
When you compensate hospitals for Covid cases, you’re going to have a lot of it. Surprised it’s not closer to 100% -
I have said for years that our government thinks we are all stupid and don’t have eyes or ears. My hubby followed the covid count in NY, FL and CA with his own created charts and he knew from the very beginning that the covid numbers were off and the longer the pandemic went on the more off the numbers were. And they changed day to day, especially in NY where what the count was one day, was reported different the next day. None of it added up. Then they came out with the final counts that were so far below what they were reporting during the lockdown that everyone should have known at that point the government was lying their azzes off all along.
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