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.”)
EVERYTHING about “COVID” is a LIE.
Let me help you out. Yes, they made up the whole thing, 100%. As I have said here many times,
EVERYTHING about “COVID” is a LIE.
Not only was it all a lie, but it was obviously a lie from the beginning. I am still amazed at how many people bought it, and continue to buy it. I am also dismayed by how many people actively encouraged the “COVID” tyranny against their neighbors, friends, and family. And I am disgusted by the selfishness of old people who had no qualms about ruining the childhoods of young people, so that they might have a couple more years of being old.
There have been more than 1 million excess deaths in the US. Life expectancy is shorter by 2.5 years. Please tell us what caused this if it wasn’t Covid? 2 personal friends died after 2 weeks on respirators. Bodies being loaded onto flatbed trucks with a forklift behind a hospital in Queens.
(From the article): "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.” (Emphasis mine)
“Since every hospitalized patient gets tested for covid, many are incidentally positive,” Wren wrote, citing Robin Dretler, an attending physician at Emory Decatur Hospital."
My comment : Take away the financial incentive for hospital administration to find covid within their patient population,
and you will get a more accurate statistical count of covid true infections.
Over count by 90% is NOT accidental !
Always Consider the source of new information :
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2023/01/15/how-badly-did-we-overcount-covid-deaths-and-hospitalizations-n523940
Lung damage bacterial infections in the lungs from being told to stay home and not go to the hospital unless they couldn't breath and their lips were turning blue. At which point their lungs were in a fragile, infection filled state and likely they were septic system wide.
And then they put them on vents after already seeing that people on vents were getting their lungs blown out. Add to that putting them on that poison Remdesevir, you can about guarantee the death of a patient.
It was medical malpractice by implementing the exactly wrong things to do to patients with bacterial pneumonia in the lungs that killed them.
When you force an infected patient to avoid medical treatment until they are so sick that they get short tracked to the ICU, what else do you expect.
Early on there was a woman doctor in Texas, IIRC, who was treating all her patients as bacterial pneumonia cases and had a 100% success cure rate.
Of course, that was shut down pretty quickly and she was chastised by the medical community for not following their murderous protocol.
>> 90 percent of patients diagnosed with COVID are actually in the hospital for some other illness.
Financial opportunism for all involved at the expense of livelihoods, the economy, young adults, and children. This is a capital crime.
Was that the Dallas doc?
I wonder if they tried taking her license away, and, if she received the Dr McCullough treatment.
I don’t recall her name.
It was very early on in 2020.
Might be this doc….who, like SO MANY other REAL docs, have been proven right on ….
Could be.
I thought she was black, but this goes back almost three years, so I don’t recall exactly.
You are more than welcome to believe what you believe. I believe there are lots of folks who died FROM covid but there were also a lot of folks the died WITH covid that counted towards the figures of dying from covid. That is the truth and you can call me a conspiracy theorist or whatever I honestly believe the numbers were inflated. And I also believe these facts will come out.
I call on Free Republic to create another sister site, a safe space, where the vaxholes can cry together and console each other. Right after taking another booster.
It is my understanding that Remdesivir was subsidized to about $3,000 per treatment course. How much was hospital care subsidized for Covid patients, as opposed say for cancer, or a stroke?
Many families were happy to have their loved one’s death recorded as a COVID death because the gubmint would give thousands in funeral expenses for “COVID deaths”. They’d be sh!t out of luck if it was simply death due to car accident, gunshot, cancer, etc....
That’s one of the reasons the covid count was inflated. Just look at the different numbers for the different illnesses that almost disappeared...like the flu, cancer, heart problems. They are all lower in 2020 and 2021.
Hospitals got government money for covid cases.
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