Quote Originally Posted by FriscoDog View Post
I wish I could remember who the official was that said this on tv at a briefing, but basically they said: "If a person who is under hospice care and contracts coronavirus and dies, their death would be counted as a coronavirus death".

They were already dying anyway, thus the hospice care. But there is money given for a coronavirus death as opposed to a cancer death.
According to this article, you don't have anything to worry about, because the doctors took a Hippocratic Oath!! LOL!

“There’s an implication here that hospitals are over-reporting their COVID patients because they have an economic advantage of doing so, [which] is really an outrageous claim,” UCLA senior fellow Gerald Kominski told the fact-checking site. He said any suggestion that patients may be put on ventilators out of financial gain, not medical need, “is basically saying physicians are violating their Hippocratic Oath … it would be like providing heart surgery on someone who doesn’t need it.”

Hospitals have another motive not to inflate COVID-19 death numbers. If the numbers don’t add up, they could expose themselves to Medicare audits, and civil and criminal penalties.


By the way, Whitehouse Coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx told CDC Director Robert Redfield to his face "there is nothing from the CDC that I can trust". It's in the same article.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/as-u-s-co...is-exaggerated