Wen claimed that the actual COVID-19 death count could only be '30 percent of what's currently reported'
CNN medical analyst and Washington Post columnist Dr. Leana Wen admitted in a column, Friday, that the medical community is "overcounting" the amount of "COVID deaths and hospitalizations."
Wen, who writes an occasional Washington Post column providing her observations on the pandemic, masking and other COVID-related subjects, cited sources claiming that most "patients diagnosed with COVID are actually in the hospital for some other illness."
The article is titled, "We are overcounting COVID deaths and hospitalizations. That’s a problem."
Wen’s observations prompted readers on Twitter to complain, stating that it's "two and a half years late."
CNN medical analyst Leana Wen wrote a column Friday claiming it appears that hospitals have been overcounting COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. (REUTERS/Andrew Kelly)
Wen began her column with some apparent skepticism about the CDC’s latest COVID-19 death stats: "According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the United States is experiencing around 400 COVID deaths every day. At that rate, there would be nearly 150,000 deaths a year. But are these Americans dying from COVID or with COVID?"
The doctor claimed that "Understanding this distinction is crucial to putting the continuing toll of the coronavirus into perspective. Determining how likely it is an infection will result in hospitalization or death helps people weigh their own risk."
She spoke to two Infectious-disease experts, who told her they believed "the number of deaths attributed to COVID is far greater than the actual number of people dying from COVID."
Mentioning the first, she wrote, "Robin Dretler, an attending physician at Emory Decatur Hospital and the former president of Georgia’s chapter of Infectious Diseases Society of America, estimates that at his hospital, 90 percent of patients diagnosed with COVID are actually in the hospital for some other illness."
Dretler told the analyst, "Since every hospitalized patient gets tested for COVID many are incidentally positive." Wen noted how people with gunshot wounds or other serious illnesses often test positive for the virus, and wrote, "If these patients die, COVID might get added to their death certificate along with...
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Screw her it’s likely only 5-10% of the official numbers. That was figured out more than 18 months ago too. And had hcq, ivm , etc not been banned/ignored/blackballed about the only deaths would have been in NE nursing homes. Several nursing homes were saved with methylene blue or antibiotics and sinus spray. Look it up; it was ignored as “merely anecdotal “. The “from vs with” fake counting was all the way at the beginning of lockdown. If hospitals weren’t given a pile of money to let you die counts wouldve been even lower. The only honest thing fauci ever said in his entire career was in the very early days when he said it was a fairly minor illness. And we had the petri dish of a cruise ship or two to see exactly how the disease hit.
ReplyDeleteThe virus is real. The virus can kill you if you’re already in pathetic health. Everything else about this is a lie. Everything.
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The Modified Limited Hangout(tm), a perennial favorite. Same with the Biden classified documents.
ReplyDeleteThis has been known from the very beginning of the outbreak. It's was done intentionally, not by mistake.
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