[z3n]

Per capita, 13 of the highest mortality states are GOP states.

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Do you remember those trillion+ dollar covid bills they passed? Did you know that the federal government was paying hospitals for every death certificate that included covid19 as a comorbidity?

They don’t even have to take the data and then massage and cheat it after the fact. the cheating was baked right into the original stats cake.

[Zhang Fei]

[Do you remember those trillion+ dollar covid bills they passed? Did you know that the federal government was paying hospitals for every death certificate that included covid19 as a comorbidity?

They don’t even have to take the data and then massage and cheat it after the fact. the cheating was baked right into the original stats cake.]

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If so, wouldn’t all hospitals have an incentive to play up connections to COVID? Are hospitals in blue states allergic to Federal cash, that they report lower per capita death numbers?

[Cold_Red_Steel]

Do you remember those trillion+ dollar covid bills they passed? Did you know that the federal government was paying hospitals for every death certificate that included covid19 as a comorbidity?

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I remember a motorcycle fatality being coded as “COVID” by a Florida hospital.

Then there’s this...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/24/cdc-coding-error-overcount-covid-deaths