CDC Director Robert Redfield Admits to Congress that U.S. Covid-19 Death Numbers are Inflated.

originally posted by: AutomateThis1
a reply to: carewemust

Yep, been saying that for months now. My family members who work in various medical field positions have also been saying it. It's not exactly a secret. The media just doesn't report on it, politicians don't care, and I'd imagine most hospital board directors don't want that information to be considered factual since they really only care about bringing in more funding; so most medical professionals are told to refrain from making public statements contrary to the narrative.

Also, since you mentioned it. Arizona is a state I'm keeping an eye on since I'm planning on moving there in about a year.

So Basically , the Healthcare Field is just OK With Outright LYING to the American Public so that they can Selfishly Make MONEY from Peoples Suffering ? .Hmm...CHECK ! .............

originally posted by: Zanti Misfit

originally posted by: AutomateThis1
a reply to: carewemust

Yep, been saying that for months now. My family members who work in various medical field positions have also been saying it. It's not exactly a secret. The media just doesn't report on it, politicians don't care, and I'd imagine most hospital board directors don't want that information to be considered factual since they really only care about bringing in more funding; so most medical professionals are told to refrain from making public statements contrary to the narrative.

Also, since you mentioned it. Arizona is a state I'm keeping an eye on since I'm planning on moving there in about a year.

So Basically , the Healthcare Field is just OK With Outright LYING to the American Public so that they can Selfishly Make MONEY from Peoples Suffering ? .Hmm...CHECK ! .............

That's why there were hoards of Medical Doctors coming to the White House to help President Obama push the Affordable Care Act in 2009-2010 via several press briefings. At first, Doctors/Hospitals made a killing. Not so much now, but they're doing OK.

The CARES Act in March pumped many billions of dollars into the medical complex. Covid-19 Sickness and Death was a huge financial boom for them.

Unfortunately for them, it ran out in September, and Congress hasn't refilled the Covid-19 money pot.

originally posted by: carewemust
Sunday, August 2, 2020

Friday, top Centers for Disease Control (CDC) officials testified before Congress. Their testimonies were anxiously anticipated by the Main Stream Media. But after the hearing had ended, there was almost no MSM coverage of what was said or revealed.

Why? Because there were some revelations that go against the Covid-19 fear/hysteria the U.S. News Media, along with their like-minded medical experts and politicians, are saturating our eyes and ears with every day, 24/7.

The most important revelation (IMO) was a top official at Health and Human Services, along with the Director of the CDC admitting that Covid-19 death numbers are "inflated".

In addition to the political reasons we're all aware of, there's also a financial incentive for hospitals to inflate their number of Covid-19 deaths.

(CNSNews.com) – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield acknowledged Friday that the number of COVID-19 deaths could be inflated where someone who had the virus actually died from something else, but it was recorded as a COVID death.

At a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing, titled, “The Urgent Need for a National Plan to Contain the Coronavirus,” Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Mo.) said he wished that Admiral Brett Giroir, assistant secretary for health at HHS, didn’t have to leave the hearing early, because the last time he appeared before the committee, they discussed the incentive for people in the medical field to claim someone died of COVID just to get more money.

“I asked him a question last time he was here, and we didn't have a time to continue our discussion with regards to the sort of perverse incentive for medical folks to claim that somebody died of COVID versus if it’s an automobile accident for instance, as long as you have COVID in your system, you can blame COVID and which means you get more money as the attending physician, hospital, whatever,” the congressman said.

“[Giroir] acknowledges that the statistics he’s getting from the states are inflated. We found that the governor of Colorado, who was a Democrat, actually did research on this and found he had to get rid of 12% of the deaths that were recorded in the state,” Luetkemeyer said.

He asked Redfield to comment on the “perverse incentive” and whether there is an effort “to try and do something different in a way that these deaths are recorded so we actually have better records and better numbers to go with.”

“Early in the HIV epidemic, somebody may have a heart attack but also have HIV. The hospital would prefer the DRG for HIV because there is greater reimbursement.

When it comes to death reporting though, ultimately, it's how the physician defines it in the death certificate,” Redfield said.

Source: www.cnsnews.com...


Actually, the latest CDC guidelines issued on April 20th are more "generous" than what these Congressmen are aware of. If a doctor/coroner "believes" that a deceased individual had Covid-19 at the time of death, it can be listed as a Covid-19 death.

In cases where a definite diagnosis of COVID–19 cannot
be made, but it is suspected or likely, it
is acceptable to report COVID–19 on a death certificate as
“probable” or “presumed.”

From Page-2, Paragraph-5 of this CDC document: www.cdc.gov...


I have an ATS thread identifying one example (Arizona) where these fast and loose rules/guidelines have been implemented to pump-up the death count... either for political reasons, and/or to trigger additional payments from the Federal Government to Arizona hospitals.

Here is that 7/19/2020 thread: www.abovetopsecret.com...


Another revelation from yesterday's testimony came from Doctor Anthony Fauci. He said President Trump is correct about Schools needing to reopen for in-person learning. He explained how downstream ramifications for the children, and the families, from keeping schools closed for in-person learning and interacting, would be devastating.

Source: www.newsweek.com...

Again, much of what was revealed and advised at yesterday's hearing was calming, level-headed, and transparent. With about 90 days until the Presidential Election, those TRUTHS are not what 90% of the U.S. media want Americans to know, or understand.

-CareWeMust

9.12.2021

Amazing what you find when using a NON-Google search engine to research motives underlying the ongoing waaaay over the top hysteria surrounding all-things Covid-19.

For example, CONFIRMATION that Hospitals are Paid Big $$$ to label (in the system) a patient as being treated for Covid-19. (The patient and his/her relatives don't have to be told.)

Quick Read Summary from 2020: saraacarter.com...

a reply to: carewemust

August 21, 2022

Horrible News from our CDC: www.nationalreview.com...

Now that the CDC has admitted gross INCOMPETENCE and NEGLIGENCE with handling the Covid-19 Pandemic in America, it needs to be determined how much useless carnage and death were they responsible for.

I'm sure families want to know....as do their attorneys.

a reply to: carewemust

I believe that the admission of negligence is to get ready for the inquiries that the agency will come under once the house and senate change hands.

Because is going to be a lot of questions.

In the beginning of the covid virus most of the dead were at the hands of health care workers in medical facilities and nursing homes following the instruction of the state local politicians and CDC.

A lot of treatments were suppressed in order to inflame dead and to increase the willingness of people to become a pharma rab lab with CDC and government approval, the fearmongering with baseless claim went rampant, science was one sided to benefit maximum money making.

a reply to: marg6043

Good points. Also, the CDC warnings caused (mostly Democrat led) states and cities to lock down, which destroyed our economy and led to increased suicides, drug deaths, and other non-quantifiable tragedies.

The Congressional committees will also include in their investigation, the early responses of politicians and health officials, telling the public to ignore warnings coming out of Trump's administration about the dangers of Covid-19. (All well documented here on ATS)