Re:Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government?
by nradov on Thursday September 22, 2022 @02:45PM
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The reported death numbers absolutely were inflated in many areas, at least early in the pandemic. This is a proven fact not open to dispute. For example, Santa Clara County had to revise their death toll down by 22% because they were using invalid criteria.
Whether such classification errors were deliberate is a separate issue. In most cases I suspect it was more due to lack of resources and/or incompetence rather than a deliberate attempt to mislead.
Medicare did pay hospitals more to care for COVID-19 patients. That is also a fact not open to dispute. Whether doctors or hospitals deliberately inflated numbers to make money is unknown.
https://sanjosespotlight.com/santa-clara-county-revises-tota...
Whether such classification errors were deliberate is a separate issue. In most cases I suspect it was more due to lack of resources and/or incompetence rather than a deliberate attempt to mislead.
Medicare did pay hospitals more to care for COVID-19 patients. That is also a fact not open to dispute. Whether doctors or hospitals deliberately inflated numbers to make money is unknown.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/24/fac...
About half of the COVID-19 positive hospital patients were admitted for unrelated reasons, and only tested positive as part of admission screening.
https://gothamist.com/news/new-preliminary-state-data-shows-...