The numbers are falsely elevated. These large medical systems are getting federal dollars for covid patients and since their census is so low, everyone is listed as covid. Likewise deaths not attributable to covid, get listed as covid deaths. I have talked to several MD's who have related this information as listed. I know of several patients with terminal diseases (metastatic cancer, end-stage CHF, stroke) who died and were listed as covid deaths.
There is no good epidemiology on this now. Its all politicized for telling a story.
