After nearly three years of denial, accusation, and slander, the mainstream media is finally owning up to the fact that COVID-19 death stats were over-inflated.
Well … kind of.
As all the “delusional right-wing conspiracy theorists” out there may remember, it was readily apparent by mid-2020 that hospitals, media outlets, and government officials were fudging the numbers on pandemic fatalities. In numerous instances, governments and medical professionals were caught recording anyone who died with COVID as having died from COVID.
Seems like that would be an important distinction to make.
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A CDC mandate for publication of death stats required that “COVID-19 should be reported on the death certificate for all decedents where the disease caused or is assumed to have caused or contributed to death.” This seemingly straightforward requirement for a common-sense determination quickly led to absolutely ridiculous additions to the COVID death record. In May 2020, the National Review reported the following:
There was the Lehigh Valley, Penn., man who slipped and fell at home. The coroner said, according to LehighValleyLive.com: “The primary cause of the man’s death was a head injury from a fall at home, but … the virus was listed as a contributing factor to his death.” In April, a 37-year-old California man “died as a result of a drug overdose while infected with COVID-19, a significant contributing condition, according to county spokeswoman Ashley Bautista, per the Ventura County Star. [Then] there was the entry in the Cook County, Ill., medical-examiner ledger: “Complications of opiate (probably heroin) toxicity. Novel corona (COVID-19) virus, end stage renal disease, hypertension, ACCIDENT.”
The list of egregious examples continues from there, including everything from gunshots to alcohol poisoning. That might explain why Dr. Deborah Birx, one of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s counterparts on the White House’s coronavirus task force, reportedly said “There is nothing from the CDC that I can trust.”
Still, the media was all too happy to take those numbers and run with them. Every major outlet then spent the duration of the pandemic calling anyone who questioned the numbers — including the sitting president — a “conspiracy theorist” and a “science denier.”
In May 2020, the New York Times reported that “Mr. Trump told reporters that he accepted the current death toll, but that the figures could be ‘lower than’ the official count, which now totals nearly 95,000. Most statisticians and public health experts say he is wrong; the death toll is probably far higher than what is publicly known … Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, told lawmakers this month that the overall toll was likely an undercount.”
But now, in 2023, with the pandemic lockdowns quickly fading from the country’s collective memory, the media is quietly walking back its previous claims — but they can’t even bring themselves to let people know about it.
In a report published on Monday, the Times celebrated the “positive milestone” of American COVID deaths finally dropping to historically normal levels. But if one were to read 17 paragraphs down from the headline, one might come across this shocking admission:
The official number is probably an exaggeration because it includes some people who had the virus when they died even though it was not the underlying cause of death. Other C.D.C. data suggests that almost one-third of official recent Covid deaths have fallen into this category. A study published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases came to similar conclusions.
That confession doesn’t warrant its own headline? No one is held accountable or called out for the coverup. The Times doesn’t even bother to acknowledge its own bad reporting or issue a retraction. Instead, the truth is buried where few will ever read it, and the American people are expected to forget about the damage the media’s lie did to their country.
But that’s not likely to happen.
People will remember the lies that left family members and loved ones to die alone in hospital rooms because visitors were restricted and then forced the surviving relatives to social distance at the funeral.
People will remember the lies that downplayed or dismissed potential COVID therapeutics, instead insisting that the vaccine was the only solution even when it was still months away and the body count was growing by the day.
People will remember.
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