That is what I heard. There are financial incentives to report deaths at COVID-Related if possible. So people who are hospitalized due to other pre-existing conditions who contract COVID (whether they contract it before they get to the hospital or after they get there...) are counted as a COVID death. It inflates the numbers.BillyGr wrote: ↑May 9th, 2020, 1:11 pmPerhaps to do with getting reimbursed for those who are diagnosed with this that didn't have coverage from insurance (or have limited coverage)? Thus, if they can make it look like a virus related treatment, they are guaranteed to get paid for doing it and not have to chase the individual (or family if it becomes a fatal case) to get that money?storewanderer wrote: ↑May 7th, 2020, 7:19 pmI heard from a different news source which may or may not be accurate that certain states in the east and west coast somehow have a financial incentive to over-report COVID-19 deaths. I don't quite understand how that would work.
Maybe if the coasts over-report and the middle states under-report it will all net out?
So far 1/3 of total COVID deaths in the US are from nursing homes. There's an industry that needs to get some serious monitoring. How many other deaths in these nursing homes every year due to viruses spreading in them like wildfire? Probably a lot. Too bad it took COVID to bring this to everyone's attention.