Dr. Birx specifically said that the guidance is to count all deaths of ...

those who tested positive as COVID-19 deaths, regardless of the actual cause of death. They are trying to be conservative with the numbers. The current Federal programs in place also encourage states to inflate their death totals due to reimbursements and patient costs. This is not a rumor - this is actually true.

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Posted: 04/20/2020 at 08:30AM

41k 🇺🇸 deaths already from Covid 🤦‍♂️ ** -- OXVT 04/19/2020 9:58PM

Here's the next big question people will be seeking the answer for: -- Baltimore Hokie 04/20/2020 12:24AM

Interesting, saw an article yesterday that compared deaths from 2018 to -- HokieZig 04/20/2020 11:40AM

Given we are where we are, im interested in how the world extracts itself -- ColoVT82 04/20/2020 09:48AM

Balancing societal risk VS societal cost is supposed to be what our -- Tafkam Hokie 04/20/2020 10:27AM

Panic is certainly there. How does one change the psychology ** -- ColoVT82 04/20/2020 12:56PM

And the one after that will be what did it really cost -- Tafkam Hokie 04/20/2020 08:34AM

We don't even accurately know the percentage of -- RTFC 04/20/2020 01:33AM

I did a little experiment using the Worldometer data -- Baltimore Hokie 04/20/2020 12:00PM

...and here's the same experiment with the 'Deaths' data -- Baltimore Hokie 04/20/2020 12:04PM

Statistics. -- RTFC 04/20/2020 1:08PM

Or how pervasive it was prior to SIP ** -- HokieForever 04/20/2020 07:20AM

FYI, some hospitals are reporting all hospital deaths as COVID-19 related -- VTScanlo 04/19/2020 11:42PM

Reimbursement prob - free Covid care for individuals - -- bigbadbird 04/20/2020 08:06AM

Yeah, I figured it has to do something with money (doesn’t everything?) ** -- VTScanlo 04/20/2020 09:06AM

Actual death toll from COVID is 11. Others are all made up. ** -- 81_Hokie 04/20/2020 07:13AM

Yeah, that's not happening ** -- Gobbler-100 04/20/2020 01:19AM

FYI (link) -- VTScanlo 04/26/2020 9:45PM

Yep. People need to use common sense. The lawyers of the world would have -- CochraneResident 04/20/2020 02:05AM

You know this how? ** -- vt_mughal 04/19/2020 11:58PM

Dr. Birx specifically said that the guidance is to count all deaths of ... -- vt90 04/20/2020 08:30AM

Which means we have very bad data to base decisions for the future on. -- coshokie 04/20/2020 10:22AM

I've seen this reported in multiple places as well. ** -- mancunian 04/20/2020 10:15AM

Wife works at one of said hospitals ** -- VTScanlo 04/20/2020 12:05AM

We'll soon find out if the summer heat will stall it. Heading to the 90's -- AZHokie59 04/19/2020 10:35PM

Looking froward to seeing that. Problem is southern hemisphere goes -- vt_mughal 04/19/2020 10:53PM

Luckily...most of the Southern Hemisphere areas with population density -- Tuckahokie 04/20/2020 12:03AM

Yeah, I thought about that too. Maybe they'll just keep it cool for us for -- AZHokie59 04/19/2020 10:57PM

Terrible but the graphs are trending downward. ** -- IB4TECH 04/19/2020 10:18PM

In about 1 month - really crazy ** -- FfxStationHokie 04/19/2020 10:02PM

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