Yesterday, I shared how a recent CDC report showed that in the U.S. only 0.26% of people infected with COVID-19 actually die. That means 99.74% survive. Meaning this isn’t the plague, it’s just a bad bug. But the bug may not be even all that bad; as it appears as if deaths from other causes are being blamed on COVID-19.

For example, in the United States, Medicare will pay an extra $8,000 if a patient is said to have had COVID-19, according to USA Today. Simply reclassify a flu patient as a COVID-19 death and a struggling hospital has just upped its profit margin. (They’ll even receive $26,000 more if they put that COVID patient on a ventilator.) 

Is it really that easy? Consider that the CDC, back in March, told doctors that: “COVID-19 should be reported on the death certificate for all decedents where the disease caused or is assumed to have caused or contributed to death.”

Believe-it-or-not, an “assumed” COVID death is fine by CDC’s statistical standards.

“….there have been influenza deaths, influenza cases, that have been called COVID-19 [deaths] because nobody bothered to swab their throats,” Dr. Scott Jensen, a Minnesota MD told FOX News.

Pennsylvania’s Department of Health removed 200 deaths from their COVID-19 deaths, admitting they were counting “probable” cases, rather than verified (according the The Philadelphia Inquirer).

The actual real death count from COVID-19? Who knows? Based on the above, one might guess it’s half what they are claiming. That would put the above estimate down to 1.2%. Sort of like any old coronavirus, I might assume.

And that’s not even considering the evidence indicating that the medical treatment patients are receiving (such as unnecessary ventilation) is the cause of many many of these so-called COVID deaths.

I’m working on a series of a Much Ado About Corona Info-Sheets that will contain data such as the above. You’ll be free to download, print and distribute as many copies as you can (subscribe to be alerted when they are ready).