Posted on 04/17/2020 7:26:27 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A Minnesota doctor is voicing his concern that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) guideline on how to complete COVID-19 death certificates may influence medical certifiers to inflate the number of deaths from the disease.
The seven-page guideline received by Dr. Scott Jensen, a family physician and Republican state senator from Minnesota, explains how he may state a death to be a “presumed” COVID-19 death, even if testing was not done to confirm it. COVID-19 is a disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus.
“Physicians don’t like it when political types try to impact what we do when it comes to patient care,” Jensen said on the Don Giordano Program, “And really, the last thing we do for our patient in many situations is appropriately and accurately complete the death certificate.”
According to Jensen, a death certificate should be based on facts and not presumptions or biases. The CDC’s guideline states: “In cases, where a definite diagnosis of COVID-19 cannot be made, but it is suspected or likely (e.g., the circumstances are compelling within a reasonable degree of certainty), it is acceptable to report COVID-19 on a death certificate as ‘probable’ or ‘presumed.’”
A hypothetical example given in the guideline is an 86-year-old woman who died after displaying symptoms of a high fever, severe cough, and difficulty breathing for five days. The woman, who suffered a stroke three years ago that left her nonambulatory, had the symptoms “after being exposed to an ill family member who was subsequently diagnosed with COVID-19.”
Although testing was not conducted to verify the disease, the CDC says “probable COVID-19” may be listed as the underlying cause of death, “given the patient’s symptoms and exposure to an infected individual.”
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Whereas in other countries, Birx said, “if you had a pre-existing condition, and let’s say the virus caused you to go to the ICU [intensive care unit] and then have a heart or kidney problem. Some countries are recording that as a heart issue or a kidney issue and not a COVID-19 death.”
Those concerned with COVID-19 deaths being unduly inflated argue that differentiation between a person dying of the disease or with the disease should be a factor in determining the actual death rate of the CCP virus.
Nobody died from pneumonia and heart failure winter, 2020.
Nope, Dr. Trump saved all of them!
FOLLOW THE MONEY
Anyone who died without insurance in 2020 is now a COVID stat. This is Medicare fraud on steroids.
“ commonly known as the novel coronavirus.”
More commonly known as the WuFlu to most people.
If undocumented people can be counted as citizens then why not undocumented deaths? But if open borders are demanded regardless of the danger of loss and life, then why are quarantines demanded for the the reasons those who oppose open borders cite? Its called the paradoxical pathogen principle.
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