Dying w/COVID is Not the Same as Dying from COVID: 'CDC Continues to Inflate the Number of COVID Deaths.' It Counts COVID as Causing Death Even If its Not Listed as the Underlying Cause of Death'
/An excerpt from Chapter 4 of “The Truth About COVID-19” by Dr. Joseph Mercola. [citations omitted}
You know the official story: COVID-19 is a highly contagious and deadly infection that can be stopped only by social distancing, frequent hand-washing, lockdowns, masks, mass testing, contact tracing, and ultimately vaccines. But in reality, COVID-19 appears to be a highly contagious, dangerous, lab-manufactured ~trigger" for the preexisting conditions of an aging and increasingly chronically ill population. The virus itself isn't the primary cause of most COVID-19 hospitalizations and fatalities. Rather, the virus exploits other serious diseases with high mortality that are widespread in the population and dangerous in and of themselves. It's these comorbidities, along with rampant medical malpractice (and other factors we've already touched on and will cover further in this book), that are the main drivers of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths. To put it simply: People are dying ~oith COVID-19 as opposed to dying from it.
Data Show COVID-19 Isn't a Significant Threat
To understand the truth versus the official story, we have to separate the real statistics from the “official" statistics on cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. A relatively high “case" load does not mean people are actually getting sick and dying. The media has been conflating a positive test result with the actual disease, COVID-19, thereby deliberately misleading the public into believing the infection is far more serious and widespread than it actually is.
COVID-19 is not confirmed by a positive test; it is a clinical diagnosis of someone infected with SARS-COV-2 who is exhibiting severe respiratory illness characterized by fever, coughing, and shortness of breath. By using a test that falsely labels healthy individuals as sick and infectious, mass testing drives the narrative that we're in a lethal pandemic. Indeed, the use of reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests is at the very heart of this entire scam. If it wasn't for this flawed test, there would be no pandemic to speak of I will review this in greater detail in chapter 5.
Mislabeled Causes of Death
According to groundbreaking data released by the CDC on August 26, 2020, only 6 percent of the total COVID-19-related deaths in the US had COVID- 19 listed as the sole cause of death off the death certificate.1 To help that sink in: 6 percent of 496,112 (the total death toU reported by the CDC as of February, 21, 2021) is 29,766. In other words, SARS-CoV-2 infection was directly responsible for 29,766 deaths of otherwise healthy individuals--a far different story from the 200,000-plus (and rising) number reported in the media. The remaining 94 percent of patients had an average of 2.6 health conditions that contributed to their deaths.
These data paint a picture that's in stark contrast with Johns Hopkins University, which in August 2020 reported that about 170,000 of the 5.4 million Americans who had tested positive for COVID-19 had died, prompting Dr. Thomas Frieden, former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to say that COVID-19 is now the third leading cause of death in the US, killing more Americans than "accidents, injuries, lung disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many, many other causes." 2. Frieden is simply stoking the flames of fear with this claim.
Johns Hopkins has been having a hard time keeping its story straight. In November 2020 the institution published an article alleging accounting errors on a national level regarding COVID-19 deaths in the elderly.
"Surprisingly, the deaths of older people stayed the same before and after COVID-19," the author of the article said. "Since COVID-19 mainly affects the elderly, experts expected an increase in the percentage of deaths in older age groups. However, this increase is not seen from the CDC data. In fact) the percentages of deaths among all age groups remain relatively the same." But after a link to the Johns Hopkins article was posted on Twitter, the article quickly disappeared.3 Fortunately, an archive of it is still available.4
The American Institute for Economic Research reported on the mysterious disappearance of the article and went a few steps further by posting its own graph taken from CDC data in April 2020. "This suggests that it could be possible that a huge number of deaths could have been mainly due to more serious ailments such as heart disease but categorized as a COVID-19 death, a far less lethal disease," the institute reported.5. Incidentally, this is precisely what CDC guidance has instructed medical practitioners to do.
The CDC's Plan to Intentionally Inflate Numbers of Deaths Due to COVID-19
The CDC has done its part to ensure that as many deaths as possible are attributed to COVID-19---even when it was not the actual cause of death. In personal correspondence, Meryl Nass, MD, reported that in March 2020: "The CDC issued new guidance that required doctors who complete death certificates to list COVID-19 on the certificate if it contributed to or caused the death. This was no different than what we did before. We are supposed to list all contributory causes.
The official communication at that time read:
It is important to emphasize that Coronavirus Disease 2019 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...
For example, in cases when COVID-19 causes pneumonia and fatal respiratory distress, both/ pneumonia and respiratory distress should be included along with COVID-19 in Part I... If the decedent had other chronic conditions such as COPD or asthma that may have also contributed, these conditions can be reported in Part II.6
In April 2020 the CDC issued new guidance documents on how to complete death certificates for COVID-19 and even hosted a webinar on the process, but according to Nass, the guidelines remained substantively the same. Then, later in the fall of 2020, the CDC changed course dramatically, this time without bringing any attention to the new guidelines. According to Nass: "Without fanfare, the CDC acknowledged on another webpage that even if COVID was not listed by the doctor as the underlying cause of death, or the proximate cause of death, as long as it was listed as one cause or contributor, it would be coded as the cause of death."
Indeed, the CDC website at the time of this writing reads (emphasis ours): "When COVID-19 is reported as a cause of death on the death certificate, it is coded and counted as a death due to COVID-19.” 8.
All of this caused Nass to conclude that the fanfare that occurred in April was "deliberate misdirection." You may not appreciate how absurd this is, so let me give you an example. If a young healthy person died in a motorcycle accident and had tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, according to these CDC guidelines, their death would be listed as a COVID-19 death.
All these machinations with the death certificates hide the fact that the death rate from COVID-19 for everyone except for those over 60 is significancy lower than the death rate for influenza. [MORE]