AS YOU’VE LEARNED, the number of cases and deaths did not warrant the declaration of a pandemic and certainly did not warrant drastic interventions in the U.S. such as shelter-in-place, closure of most businesses, sending children home from school, and loss of personal freedoms. But even the low numbers were almost certainly inflated.
Inaccurate Testing
From the beginning, COVID-19 testing in the U.S. has been flawed. While the World Health Organization had developed testing specifications for COVID-19 by January 2020, the CDC decided to develop its own test, which was ready by early February. The test was manufactured and distributed by the CDC to health centers throughout the U.S., and within a few days, the tests were found to be inaccurate. In response the FDA insisted that hospitals, academic centers and private companies should not develop their own tests. When the agency finally lifted the ban on test development at the end of February, there was a rush to get tests ready for market. Although the FDA provided no standards for how COVID-19 was to be detected. This meant all test makers could decide what standard to use.
Over 100 companies are currently producing tests for COVID-19, and these tests were approved by the FDA under emergency authorization with minimal validation. The test makers only had to show that the tests performed well in test tubes and no real-world demonstration of clinical viability was required.1 Each vendor established its own and as-yet-unmeasured accuracy. The variations are myriad, with some tests able to detect as few as 100 copies of a viral gene while others require 400 copies for detection.2 Additionally, most will show positive results for as long as 6 months, while the actual time a person is contagious is only a few days.
Several issues were never addressed. One is the potential cross-reactivity with other viruses. Another is that the presence of coronavirus is likely to remain for several months after the infectious period has passed. This means the tests are useless for determining who should be quarantined. Yet another is the risk of cross contamination, particularly when testing large numbers of people in crowded settings. Even the tiniest amount of cross contamination can lead to a false positive result, which means people who have never been exposed to COVID-19 could be subjected to unwarranted quarantines.
The accuracy of tests is important since numbers of “cases” is the metric used to determine business closures, event cancellations, lockdowns, withdrawal of civil rights and liberties, whether people can congregate, and if the useless masks are required.
There are two primary processes used to test for the coronavirus. The first method requires a sample of mucus from a person’s nose or throat and then attempting to replicate the RNA through a Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) machine. The second is through the antibody test, a blood test that is supposed to determine not if one is infected, but if they have ever been infected. Both tests are flawed.
Biochemist Kary Mullis is the inventor of the PCR test and won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his invention in 1993. Mullis stated in 2013 that PCR was never designed to diagnose disease. The test finds very small segments of a nucleic acid which are components of a virus. According to Mullis, having an actual infection is quite different than testing positive with PCR. According to Mullis, PCR is best used in medical laboratories and for research purposes.
Dr. David Rasnick, also a biochemist and founder of a lab called Viral Forensics, agrees.
“You have to have a whopping amount of any organism to cause symptoms. Huge amounts of it. You don’t start with testing; you start with listening to the lungs. I’m skeptical that a PCR test is ever true. It’s a great scientific research tool. It’s a horrible tool for clinical medicine. 30% of your infected cells have been killed before you show symptoms. By the time you show symptoms…the dead cells are generating the symptoms.”
When asked about having a COVID-19 test he stated, “Don’t do it, I say, when people ask me. No healthy person should be tested. It means nothing but it can destroy your life, make you absolutely miserable.” He went on to say, “Every time somebody takes a swab, a tissue sample of their DNA, it goes into a government database. It’s to track us. They’re not just looking for the virus. Please put that in your article.”3
In fact, PCR testing was already shown to be wildly inaccurate almost 15 years ago.
In 2006, massive PCR testing was performed at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center when it was thought that the medical center was experiencing an epidemic of whooping cough. Almost 1000 healthcare workers were furloughed until their test results were returned. Over 140 employees were told that they had whooping cough, and thousands of others who tested positive were given antibiotics and/or a vaccine for whooping cough.
Almost eight months later, employees received an email from the hospital administration which stated that the entire episode was due to PCR testing error. Not even one case of whooping cough was confirmed with a more reliable follow-up test, and it was determined that the employees just had a common cold, not whooping cough.4
Apparently, this history was ignored as incompetent health officials like Mr. Fauci decided that ginning up cases was more important than following the science. Thus, a test that the developer said was not useful for diagnosis and that had been previously shown to be inaccurate 100% of the time was recommended for COVID-19.
A recent meta-analysis published in the British Medical Journal looked at the accuracy of PCR testing specifically for COVID-19. The researchers reported that while no test is 100% accurate, the sensitivity and specificity of a test is evaluated by comparison with a gold standard, and there is no gold standard for COVID-19. One of the reasons is that it is impossible to know the false positive rate without having tested people who don’t have the virus along with people who do, and this was never done.
The analysis showed that the false negative rate ranges between 2% and 29%. Accuracy of viral RNA swabs was highly variable. In one study, sensitivity was 93% for bronchoalveolar lavage, 72% for sputum, 63% for nasal swab, and only 32% for throat swabs. The researchers stated that results vary for many reasons including stage of disease.5 This analysis was published in May, long after Mr. Fauci and his accomplices had succeeded in creating a false pandemic, in part by insisting that more and more people should be tested.
Fortunately, many people are far more diligent than Fauci in checking out facts.
Investigators from OffGuardian contacted the authors of four papers published in early 2020 in which researchers claimed that they had discovered a new coronavirus. The investigators asked for proof that electron micrographs showed purified virus and all four groups replied that they did not.
Here are the verbatim responses from the four groups:
“The image is the virus budding from an infected cell. It is not purified virus.”
“We could not estimate the degree of purification because we do not purify and concentrate the virus cultured in cells.”
“[We show] an image of sedimented virus particles, not purified ones.”
“We did not obtain an electron micrograph showing the degree of purification.”
The investigators also contacted virologist Charles Calisher and asked if he knew of any research group that had isolated and purified SARS-COV-2 and he replied that he did not. They concluded at this time no one knows whether the RNA gene sequences used in the in vitro trials and which were used to calibrate the tests came from SARS-CoV-2.6
All of this may explain why some of the testing results from around the world have been so difficult to understand or explain. For example, testing in Guangdong province in China showed that 10% of people who recovered from COVID-19 tested negative and then tested positive again.7 Twenty-nine patients tested in Wuhan tested negative, then positive, and then the results were “dubious.”8
According to Wang Chen, president of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, PCR tests are only 30-50% accurate.9
The FDA agrees. A statement in its online instruction manual for PCR testing includes these statements:
Detection of viral RNA may not indicate the presence of infectious virus or that 2019-nCoV is the causative agent for clinical symptoms.”
This test cannot rule out diseases caused by other bacterial or viral pathogens.”10
The FDA’s online emergency use authorization includes this statement:
“positive results […] do not rule out bacterial infection or co-infection with other viruses. The agent detected may not be the definite cause of disease.”11
In fact, the manufacturer’s instruction manual for one PCR test includes these statements:
These assays are not intended for use as an aid in the diagnosis of coronavirus infection”
For research use only. Not for use in diagnostic procedures.”12
The bottom line is that this test is useless for diagnosing COVID-19. If the error rate is only 5% this could mean that the number of cases worldwide is off by millions. But the error rate is most likely much higher, which means that the world’s population is suffering due to a made-up pandemic.
There Are Other Serious Issues
Some county and state health departments state that the counts for coronavirus are typically reported via a primary care physician or pulmonologist.13 Most likely neither of these provider types has an expensive PCR machine at their disposal. Thus, it would appear as though the virus is being diagnosed by physicians the same way they would diagnose any common cold or flu, which is by physical examination and observation of symptoms. The symptoms of COVID-19 are like those of influenza in many ways.
Several Governors in the U.S. requested billions of dollars in federal aid to “assist with the impact of the coronavirus,” the amount of which was based on the infection rate. Collectively, they requested a total of $500 billion.14 At this time there is no accountability for exactly how this aid was spent. It is interesting that the states with the worst per capita debt (such as California and New York) have requested the most money.15 Coincidence? Perhaps not. Naturally, it could make sense to report a higher rate of infection in order to receive a larger piece of the stimulus.
There have been numerous problems with the testing procedures, some political, some scientific. The CDC went against the guidance of the World Health Organization (WHO).16 The irony, of course, is one corrupt organization ignoring the guidelines of another corrupt organization. Ultimately, the missteps that occurred regarding testing were massive. On April 20, 2020, it was reported that the tests the CDC was using were contaminated with the coronavirus itself.17 There was no way to know the number of false negatives and false positives.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent representatives to the CDC and found the primary culprit to be poor laboratory practices. The CDC offered no defense for its decisions.
Testing was not much better in other parts of the world. For example, Spain and the Czech Republic spent millions on a test purchased from a Chinese company called “Shenzhen Bioeasy Technology” and later found that the tests were only 30% accurate. Gordon Chang, who has covered Chinese economics and policy for decades stated “It [China] creates the poison and then sells the cure to it.”18 How purposeful was this? We will never know, although China had an incentive to keep the world frightened and shut down, both to gain economic advantage and to distract the world while it engaged in practices condemned by many countries.
Even if the test kits are not faulty, more false negatives can result from the swabbing method used to collect samples. The tests typically require a swab to be inserted into the nasal passage. This is a common method used in the “drive-thru” testing sites set up in many cities. In order to be properly detected, the swab must be inserted deep into the nasal passage, causing considerable discomfort. Many of those performing the tests were either not properly trained or tended to withdraw the swab early when the patient exhibited discomfort or resistance.
Dr. Michael Pintella, Director of the State Hygienic Lab in Iowa, stated “Tests involve a multi-step process and each step might lead to a false negative result for any number of reasons, including a poorly collected specimen, a delay in transport of the specimen to the lab, not storing or transporting specimens at the appropriate temperature, problems encountered during testing extraction, analysis errors and more.”19 In the same news release Dr. Austin Baeth, who was very outspoken about wanting to administer a state lockdown for Iowa, admitted that the tests only have a 63% accuracy rate.
The other common method for testing is the antibody test, which uses a blood sample. The problem with this test is that it does not determine if one has the virus, rather if one has had it before. This is also problematic, as there are many false positives due to detecting antibodies created from other coronaviruses (such as the common cold).20 The methodology is flawed as well. According to a report released in early May, the FDA had to tighten restrictions on the hundreds of companies that were profiting from selling fraudulent testing kits.21 Some of these kits were even being advertised as “do it yourself from home” products. It is widely believed that there are many false negatives arising from these kits as well.
To make matters worse, the CDC had been reporting positive test results from a combination of both the PCR test and the antibody test. Ashish Jha, the K.T. Li Professor of Global Health at Harvard University said, “You’ve got to be kidding me. How could the CDC make that mistake? This is a mess.” 22 He further went on to say that mixing the results of the two tests muddies the water. One test is like looking in the rearview mirror and the other just says if one is infected now. He also stated that because of this, the actual amount of cases is and was much higher than reported.
Testing in Tanzania: Apparently Fruit Can Test Positive
The head of Tanzania’s health laboratory in charge of coronavirus was suspended after President John Magufuli of Tanzania had a security detail obtain random samples of Pawpaw, jackfruit, and animals which tested positive for COVID-19.
Samples of fruit were taken from inside the fruit – therefore positive results could not be from someone touching the fruit. The samples were given names and sent to the laboratory.
Here were the results:
Magufuli said that this means the Pawpaw named Elizabeth must be placed in isolation, goats should be in isolation, and Jackfruit named Sara should be in isolation. But, he reported, the Pawpaw is not dying it’s just getting ripe. Magufuli says, “a dirty game is being played with these tests,” reported that the tests were imported, and said the WHO should do something about this. He told Reuters that this indicates that some people are testing positive who not have the disease.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there is no way that fruit can contract COVID-19
As of May 6, 2020, there were 480 cases and 17 deaths in Tanzania, and there was no way to know if the goats, sheep, bird, Pawpaw and jackfruit were included in the count.23 24
But You Must Have COVID-19! You Must!
NBC referred to Dr. Joseph Fair as “…Today’s most knowledgeable expert on the coronavirus outbreak.” Dr. Fair reported that he was recently diagnosed with COVID-19, and tweeted that he was hospitalized with it.
According to Dr. Fair, he flew home from New York City to New Orleans wearing a mask and gloves, wiped everything down but says he must have contracted it through his eyes. He said that his symptoms were not classic symptoms, but when he developed shortness of breath, he called an ambulance and was admitted to Tulane Medical Center. He had four COVID tests and they were all negative, but he knows he had it and his doctors confirmed that this was the case.
It seems that anyone determined to have COVID-19 will have it – testing does not matter. Apparently, nor does wearing masks and gloves and wiping things down.25
And If All Else Fails, Use “Medical Intuition”
An article in Medscape posted May 16, 2020 describes a patient who arrived at UC San Diego Health medical center with classic COVID-19 symptoms – a history of cough, pneumonia, severe respiratory distress – and required immediate intubation. The patient’s back of the throat was swabbed twice and both times was negative for COVID-19. “The two negative tests didn’t convince anybody,” said Davey Smith, MD, a virologist and chief of the division of infectious diseases and global public health at UC San Diego School of Medicine. It was only on the third test, when they sampled fluid from a bronchial wash, that they were able to find the virus.26 The article was titled “Don’t Discount Medical Intuition.”
The article went on to say that this is not an isolated incident because there are limitations to current tests and that clinicians report false negative rates as high as 30%. The FDA issued an alert warning of false negatives with Abbott Labs’ ID NOW rapid test, one of the most used.27
The authors also cited data in Annals of Internal Medicine showing that test accuracy depends on when the person is tested because the false negative results vary during the course of the disease. According to this study, on the day symptoms appear, the false negative rate was 38%; it dropped to 20% on the third day and increased to 66% two weeks later.28
According to Stephen Rawlings, MD PhD, infectious disease fellow at UC San Diego Center for AIDS research, one of the problems is that there is nothing to compare current tests to. He says, “To truly determine false negatives, you need a gold standard test, which is essentially as close to perfect as we can get,” Rawlings said. “But there just isn’t one yet for coronavirus.”
Colin West MD PhD at Mayo Clinic says that the studies that have looked at accuracy of tests currently used have been “filled with flaws,” one of which is that the sensitivity estimates are based on testing people who the researchers already knew had COVID-19. This results in significant bias. He says that without control groups of blinded testing it’s impossible to determine the magnitude of the inaccuracy.29
The results of an analysis of five studies that included 957 patients and that had yet to be peer-reviewed concluded that “The certainty of the evidence was judged as very low, due to the risk of bias, indirectness, and inconsistency issues. Conclusions: The collected evidence has several limitations, including risk of bias issues, high heterogeneity, and concerns about its applicability.”30
Other Countries Inflated Numbers Too
Public health officials in the UK have inflated the number of cases by counting each test twice. When diagnostic tests were used that involved taking both saliva and nasal samples from the same patient, the results were counted as two separate tests. This led to inflated case numbers. Both the Department of Health and Social Care and Public Health England acknowledged that they had engaged in this practice.
This is not the only instance in which the UK government was caught inflating data.
In April, public health authorities included thousands of home tests which had been mailed out but not completed in order to make it look like the goal of 100,000 tests was being met.
Apparently using fake numbers to promote a fake pandemic is not limited to the U.S.31
The CDC’s Strange Definition of a “Case”
As you have seen, the tests were definitely flawed. But the CDC’s definition of a “case” did not require any testing at all. The CDC listed over one dozen ways in which a person could be diagnosed with COVID-19.
Here are excerpts from the CDC’s “2020 Interim Case Definition”32 (verbatim with commentary)
Clinical Criteria
At least two of the following symptoms: fever (measured or subjective), chills, rigors, myalgia, headache, sore throat, new olfactory and taste disorder(s)
OR
At least one of the following symptoms: cough, shortness of breath, or difficulty breathing
OR
Severe respiratory illness with at least one of the following:
Clinical or radiographic evidence of pneumonia OR
Acute respiratory distress syndrome
AND
No alternative more likely diagnosis
Commentary on “Clinical Criteria”
Note that fever can be “subjective.”
Headache, sore throat and cough can be symptoms of many things, including the common cold.
“New olfactory and taste disorders” An article published in the Lancet referred to COVID testing as “inadequate” and suggests that new symptom profiles be developed to help identify those who should be quarantined.
It suggests that loss of taste and smell are highly predictive of COVID-19 and anyone experiencing these symptoms should self-isolate.33
In fact, there are many causes of loss of taste and smell. These include:
In fact, as much as 20% of the general population has a prolonged smell disorder.35
There are many problems with the Lancet article. The basis for the recommendation to use taste and smell as a diagnostic tool is data collected from patients using an online app. Almost 60% of 579 people who reported testing positive said they had lost their sense of smell and taste; but almost 18% of the 1123 who tested negative also reported loss of taste and smell.36
The researchers acknowledge many limitations which include that these symptoms are non-specific and lack predictive power, and their report relied on self-reported information, which is generally unreliable. Yet, they write, “We believe that having added loss of smell and taste to the list of COVID-19 symptoms is of great value as it will help trace almost 16% of cases that otherwise would have been missed. Loss of smell and taste, together with fever or cough, should now enable us to identify 87.5% of symptomatic COVID-19 cases, although this is likely to be less in the early phases of the infection.” This conclusion is hard to fathom in consideration of the facts, although facts have not seemed to matter much these days.
Here’s a much more realistic assessment from Eric Holbrook, director of rhinology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear: “Physicians are collecting data so quickly, but a lot of it is subjective data. I haven’t seen a careful study that looks at when patients get the diagnosis, and how severe it is, and how long the smell loss lasts.”37
Laboratory Criteria
Laboratory evidence using a method approved or authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or designated authority:
Confirmatory laboratory evidence:
Presumptive laboratory evidence:
Commentary on Laboratory Criteria:
Note that these are the tests we proved were inaccurate, and that the CDC admits that the serological methods for diagnosis are currently being defined, but they are ok to use for purposes of diagnosis now.
Epidemiologic Linkage
One or more of the following exposures in the 14 days before onset of symptoms:
**Close contact is defined as being within 6 feet for at least a period of 10 minutes to 30 minutes or more depending upon the exposure. In healthcare settings, this may be defined as exposures of greater than a few minutes or more. Data are insufficient to precisely define the duration of exposure that constitutes prolonged exposure and thus a close contact.
Commentary on Epidemiologic Linkage:
Criteria to Distinguish a New Case from an Existing Case
Not applicable (N/A) until more virologic data are available.
Commentary on Criteria to Distinguish a New Case from an Existing Case:
The CDC does not know how to determine a new from an existing case, but when trying to gin up cases, what difference could this make?
Ginning Up the Death Rate
According the CDC’s document titled “Guidance for Certifying Deaths Due to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID–19)”:38
“In cases where a definite diagnosis of COVID cannot be made but is suspected or likely (e.g. the circumstances are compelling with a reasonable degree of certainty) it is acceptable to report COVID-19 on a death certificate as ‘probable’ or ‘presumed.’”
In other words, when in doubt, classify any death possible as COVID-19, which will serve to inflate the numbers to make it look like the projections are right and keep the hoax alive.
The National Vital Statistics System issued an alert on March 24, 2020 regarding a new ICD code for COVID-19 deaths. According to this document:
The WHO has provided a second code, U07.2, for clinical or epidemiological diagnosis of COVID-19 where a laboratory confirmation is inconclusive or not available.
Will COVID-19 be the underlying cause?
The underlying cause depends upon what and where conditions are reported on the death certificate. However, the rules for coding and selection of the underlying cause of death are expected to result in COVID-19 being the underlying cause more often than not.
Should “COVID-19” be reported on the death certificate only with a confirmed test?
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.39
Again, specific instructions to list the cause of death as COVID-19 as much as possible.
Dr. Deborah Birx, a member of the White House task force, confirmed this. She announced during a press briefing on Tuesday April 7, 2020 that the deaths of all patients who died with coronavirus, even if the cause of death was not due to COVID-19, should list COVID-19 as cause of death on the death certificate. She acknowledged that other countries do not do this. “There are other countries that if you had a pre-existing condition, and let’s say the virus caused you to go to the ICU [intensive care unit] and then have a heart or kidney problem…Some countries are recording that as a heart issue or a kidney issue and not a COVID-19 death. The intent is ... if someone dies with COVID-19 we are counting that.”40
Dr. Scott Jensen, a Minnesota Family practice doctor and state Senator, said that this means that a patient who died after being hit by a bus and tested positive for coronavirus would be listed as having presumed to have died from the virus regardless of whatever damage was caused by the bus.
Dr. Jensen reported receiving a 7-page document from CDC instructing him to do this. As for the motivation? “Fear is a great way to control people,” he told a television station.41
He was notably outspoken about this matter. He cited situations in the past where he had patients who died while having the flu, stating “I’ve never been encouraged to [notate ‘influenza’]. I would probably write ‘respiratory arrest’ to be the top line, and the underlying cause of this disease would be pneumonia ... I might well put emphysema or congestive heart failure, but I would never put influenza down as the underlying cause of death and yet that’s what we are being asked to do here.”42
When Dr. Anthony Fauci was asked about the number of coronavirus deaths being “padded,” he cited the prevalence of “conspiracy theories” during “challenging” times in public health. Dr. Jensen’s response to this was “I would remind him that anytime health care intersects with dollars it gets awkward.” Dr. Jensen stated that Medicare
provides $13,000 to the hospitals and doctors for each COVID-19 patient, much more than the standard for ailments such as influenza, which has averaged around $5,000 in recent years. In addition to that, if a ventilator is used for the patient, Medicare provides $39,000 to the hospital and doctors.43
Although Dr. Jensen did not go as far as saying that physicians are trying to pad their pockets, he is more skeptical of those at higher levels such as hospital administrators.
Other misrepresentations about cause of death were being made almost daily. For example, during a press conference, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont announced that a 6-week-old baby had died and tested positive for coronavirus, and that this was likely one of the youngest deaths from the disease anywhere.44 His tweet read: “It is with heartbreaking sadness today that we can confirm the first pediatric fatality in Connecticut linked to COVID-19. A 6-week-old newborn from the Hartford area was brought unresponsive to a hospital late last week and could not be revived.” He went on to say, “This is a virus that attacks our most fragile without mercy. This also stresses the importance of staying home and limiting exposure to other people. Your life and the lives of others could literally depend on it. Our prayers are with the family at this difficult time.”45
The problem is that this is not what happened at all. In fact, the state’s medical examiner refused to certify death from coronavirus. Toxicology tests are pending, and the medical examiner indicated the possibility that the child had an underlying condition or might have died of sudden infant death syndrome or positional asphyxiation.46
But the damage was done. Lamont told the public that “…no one is safe from this virus,” and issued this warning, “For those young people who think maybe they’re a little more invincible, think again.”47 The public became more frightened, more likely to do as they were told. Stay home, do not congregate, continue to follow directions. He succeeded in scaring people with a false story.
This is not the only example in which a young person was said to have died from COVID-19 when that is not what happened at all. Chloe Middleton, age 21, died from coronavirus, according to her family. She was taken to the hospital after having a heart attack and died shortly after. A coroner said the cause of death was related to COVID-19 because the family reported she had a cough. The hospital had not recorded it as a COVID-19 death because she did not test positive for the disease.
The family took down a Facebook post claiming that Chloe had no underlying health issues and refused to respond to reporters calling for information. Subsequently the coroner’s office issued this statement: “Chloe died at Wexham Park Hospital on the 19 March 2020. The case was reported to the Berkshire coroner’s office. Her death was very sad but as she had a natural cause of death, involvement by the coroner was not required and the hospital issued a death certificate. There was no postmortem examination or inquest. We must now respect the privacy of her family and cannot provide any further information.”48
There’s More
A study published in April 2020 showed that it is difficult to differentiate between deaths from COVID-19 and Radiation Pneumonitis (RP), which is a common condition that occurs in 15-40% of patients being treated for cancer.49 Cancer patients are more susceptible to getting the flu and dying from it. We will never know how many were improperly diagnosed or reported, yet it is important to note.
Inaccurate State Death Reports
The New York Times reported on April 14, 2020 that New York City had increased its death toll by 3700 people after officials said they would not include people who never tested positive for COVID-19 but were assumed to have it.
After admitting that the cases were not valid, the Times reporters wrote, “The numbers brought into clearer focus the staggering toll the virus has already taken on the largest city in the United States, where deserted streets are haunted by the near-constant howl of ambulance sirens.”50
In Pennsylvania, death rates were adjusted downward when Health Secretary Rachel Levine said on April 23, 2020 that more information is needed before “probable” cases can be attributed to COVID-19. She said the decision was made in the interest of transparency.
This decision resulted in a reduction of 6 deaths in Lehigh Country, and 100 fewer deaths in Philadelphia, 2 fewer in Montgomery County. Bucks county saw a reduction of 10, Monroe county was reduced by 6, and Carbon County was reduced by 2. Total drop was 200 deaths, a significant percentage of the total.51
On April 20, 2020, Illinois Department of Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike explained how her department decides whether a death is due to COVID-19. She said that anyone who dies and has tested positive is categorized as a COVID-19 death.
Here is, verbatim, what she said:
“If you were in hospice and had already been given a few weeks to live, and then you also were found to have COVID, that would be counted as a COVID death. It means technically even if you died of a clear alternate cause, but you had COVID at the same time, it’s still listed as a COVID death. So, everyone who’s listed as a COVID death doesn’t mean that that was the cause of the death, but they had COVID at the time of the death.”52
Colorado State representative Mark Baisley has asked for a formal investigation into Jill Ryan, Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment with the potential for criminal charges to be brought. According to Baisley, Ryan has falsely altered death certificates.
Baisley provided a letter from the Someren Glen senior care facility which was sent to its staff, residents, and families of residents, stating that CPDHE had changed the cause of death recorded by attending physicians in seven cases to reflect COVID-19 instead of the actual cause of death.
The Montezuma County coroner told the same news station that the state overruled the cause of death for a person in his jurisdiction too. The person died of alcohol poisoning, but it was changed to COVID-19.
Eventually the Colorado Department of Health acknowledged that the numbers had been inflated by people who had the virus but died of other causes and adjusted the numbers down from 1150 deaths to 878.53
Dr. Deborah Birx, the task force response coordinator, changed her tune about death counts. During a previous White House daily briefing she stated that death certificates were to state COVID-19 as the cause of death if the person tested positive but died of something else. She said the opposite and asked the CDC to exclude from the death count people who had the virus but died of something else and removed those who were presumed to have the virus but did not have confirmed lab results.
Birx and other health officials take issue with the CDC’s system now, claiming that the number of cases and mortality may be inflated as much as 25%. “There is nothing from the CDC that I can trust,” she told CDC Director Robert Redfield.54
In June 2020, Washington State announced a “phased-in” process which would result in telling the truth about COVID-19 deaths. Apparently just telling the truth all at once would be intolerable. The first phase resulted in several suicides, homicides, and overdose deaths being removed from the death count. Health officials also reported that they would categorize deaths as “confirmed, probable, suspect and not COVID.”
The Freedom Foundation investigated and reported on this May 18, 2020 after obtaining written data from Washington State DOH officials. When confronted with it, Washington Governor Inslee responded that it was disgusting and malarkey and accused the Freedom Foundation of “fanning these conspiracy claims from the planet Pluto” and not caring about people who died from COVID.55
DOH held a press briefing on May 21,2020 during which it confirmed that reported deaths were inflated and that “(w)e currently do have some deaths that are being reported that are clearly from other causes” including some “…from gunshot wounds.”
Some “Deaths” Were Clearly NOT COVID!
Coal miner Nathan Turner was 30 years old when he was found dead in his home by his fiancé in Queensland, Australia. Queensland Health promptly reported that Turner died of coronavirus and claimed that he was Australia’s youngest COVID-19 victim. Local doctors reported that Turner’s death baffled them as he had not left his small town since February. They hypothesize that perhaps a nurse from 400 km away who had driven to Blackwater to watch the sunset had infected him.
After all of this, autopsy showed that Turner did not have the virus. The family was furious and called on Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and health official Jeannette Young to apologize to both the family and to the community for creating “chaos and panic.”
“You should be ashamed of yourself and if you had any human decency left then you will apologise for creating trauma to this family whilst you caused panic to our community.
“This is unacceptable behaviour from our leaders in power who forced a family to sit in silence and not to comment about the chaos they were about to inflict on our state.”
Queensland Health admits administering additional tests which also were negative for COVID. Apparently, there are many who are intent on making a diagnosis of COVID even when it is not there.
An online petition demanding a truthful apology had gathered 2092 signatures out of a 2500 goal within just a few hours.56
One of the more insane episodes of deaths categorized as COVID-19 involved a man who was shot by the NYPD after threatening officers with a knife and gun.
Ricardo Cardona called 911 on himself and then repeatedly told officers to kill him when they arrived to find him with the weapons. He later told investigators that he wanted to die by suicide by cop since he had been infected with COVID-19. The officers ultimately fired 11 shots, 7 of which hit him. He died 5 days later, and his death is attributed to COVID-19 with his wounds and underlying health conditions listed as “complicating factors.”57
ENDNOTES
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