It has long been known that benign
coronavirus species cause 15% of common colds. This reality was recently mentioned
by an internationally-famous virologist from Germany, in an interview where he
also admitted that laboratory confirmation of COVID-19 is next to impossible
given the high incidence of both false-positive COVID PCR swab tests and false
positive COVID serum antibody tests. Apparently, neither test seems to be able
to distinguish between the benign coronavirus that causes common colds and the
more serious coronavirus that causes COVID-19!!
Dr
Fauci’s ignorance of (or his failure to reveal) that fact justified his
oft-repeated assertion as he did his media rounds and White House press
conferences prior to the economic shut-down:
“I think we should be overly
aggressive (even if we) get criticized for
overreacting. I think Americans should be prepared … to hunker down.”
Anthony
Fauci, as everybody should know, is the long-time director of the CDC’s NIAID
(National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. He is, significantly,
also a holder of many HIV vaccine patents and the holder of the patent for the
Sanofi-Pasteur Corporation’s Dengue virus vaccine that recently killed 600
Philippine children.)
Another expert, Dr Christian
Drosten, pictured above, is the Director of Berlin University’s Institute of
Virology. He is known at “Germany’s real face of the coronavirus crisis”.
The
quotes came during an interview that Drosten made last month, in which he
revealed that the benign coronavirus that causes the common cold cannot be
differentiated by the COVID test kits, over 200 of which are currently in
development by profiteering medical device companies!!
The interview can be
read here.
“Some virologists now assume
that there are people who have become immune to
COVID-19 unnoticed because they have had a relatively harmless corona cold
in the past.”
“It
is quite the case that we expect that there may be an unnoticed background
immunity – due to cold coronaviruses, because they are related to the SARS
CoV-2 virus in a certain way.”
“15 percent of common colds
are caused by well-known coronaviruses. These are so similar to the current (COVID-19)
virus that they can even cause false positive antibody tests.”
“It
could be that certain people who had a cold virus a year or two ago are
protected in an unprecedented way.”
COVID-19’s Phony Death Numbers
Covid-19’s
Phony Death Numbersare the justification for unprecedented lockdown
measures, euthanasia of the elderly, social distancing, detrimental masking,
possible mandatory vaccines of dubious effect, all of which are causing the
destruction of life and livelihood. But, why do this? And whose interests are
being served?
By F. William Engdahl – Global Research, May
12, 2020
Not only are the coronavirus
models being used by the World Health Organization (WHO) and most national
health agencies based on highly dubious methodologies, and not only are the
tests being used of wildly different quality-only indirectly confirming
evidence of a possible COVID-19 infection-but
now the actual designations of deaths related to COVID-19 are
being revealed to be equally problematic for a variety of reasons. It gives
alarming food for thought as to the wisdom of deliberately putting most of the
world’s people–and with it the world economy–into Gulag-style lockdown
on the argument that it is necessary to contain deaths and prevent overloading
of hospital emergency services.
When
we take a closer look at the definitions used in various countries for “death
related to COVID-19” we get a far different picture of what is claimed to be
the deadliest plague to threaten mankind since the 1918 “Spanish” Flu.
The USA and CDC Definitions
Right
now the USA is said to be the nation with the largest number of COVID-19
deaths, as of this writing, with media reporting some 68,000 deaths. Here is
where it gets very dodgy.
The US Government agency
responsible for making the cause of death tally for the country, the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is making huge changes in how they
count so-called novel coronavirus deaths.
As of May 5, the National
Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) of the CDC in Atlanta, the central agency
recording causes of death nationwide, reported 39,910 COVID-19 deaths. A
footnote defines this as “Deaths with confirmed or presumed COVID-19”.
How a doctor makes the
“presumed” judgment leaves huge latitude to the hospital and health
professionals. Although the coronavirus tests are known to be subject to false
results, CDC states that even where no tests have been made a doctor can
“presume” COVID-19. Useful to note for perspective is the number of USA
deaths recorded from all causes during the same
period of February 1 through May 2, that was 751,953!
Now it gets even more murky.
The CDC posted this notice: “As of April 14, 2020, CDC case counts and death counts will include both confirmed
and probable cases and deaths.” From that time the
number of so-called COVID-19 deaths in USA has exploded in an alarming manner –
or so it would appear. On that day, April 14, New York City’s coronavirus death
toll was revised with 3,700 fatalities added, with the provision that the count now included “people who had never tested positive for the virus
but were presumed to have it.”
The CDC now defines
“confirmed” as “confirmatory laboratory evidence for COVID-19,” which as we
noted elsewhere included tests of dubious precision. Then they define “probable” as “with no
confirmatory laboratory testing performed for COVID-19.” Just a guess of
the doctor in charge.
Now leaving aside the major
discrepancy between the CDC headline COVID-19 deaths as of May 5 of 68,279 and
their detailed total of 39,910 deaths for the same period, we find another
problem. Hospitals and doctors are being told to list COVID-19 as cause of
death even if, say, a patient age 83 with pre-existing diabetes
or cardiac issues or pneumonia dies with or without COVID-19 tests.
The CDC advises, “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.’”
This
opens the door ridiculously wide for abuse of coronavirus death numbers in the
United States.
A Big Money Incentive
A provision in the March 2020
Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, known as the CARES Act,
gives a major incentive for hospitals in the US, most all
of them private, for-profit businesses, to deem
newly-admitted patients as “presumed COVID-19.” By this simple method the
hospital then qualifies for a substantially larger payment from the government
Medicare insurance, the national insurance for those over 65. The word “presumed” is not scientific, not at all
precise but very tempting for hospitals concerned about their income in this
crisis.
Dr Summer McGhee, Dean
of the School of Health Sciences at the University of New Haven, notes that,
“The
CARES Act authorized a temporary 20 percent increase in reimbursements from
Medicare for COVID-19 patients…” He added that, as a
result, “hospitals that get a lot of COVID-19 patients also get extra money
from the government.”
Then, according to a
Minnesota medical doctor, Scott Jensen, also a
State Senator, if that COVID-19 designated patient is put on a ventilator, even
if only presumed to have COVID-19, the hospital can get reimbursed three times
the sum from the Medicare.
Dr
Jensen told a national TV interviewer,
“Right now, Medicare is
determining that if you have a COVID-19 admission to the hospital you get
$13,000. If that COVID-19 patient goes on a ventilator you get $39,000,
three times as much.”
Little wonder that state
governors, such as Massachusetts’ Governor Charlie Baker, suddenly began
back-dating causes of death (totals back to March 30, significantly
inflating COVID death numbers, or that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo began
demanding 30,000 ventilators and emergency equipment around the same early
April time, equipment that was not needed.
In
short, the COVID-19 death statistics in the USA are highly dubious for a
variety of reasons, not least of which is the huge financial incentives to
hospital administrators who had been told to cancel all other operations to
make extra room for a “predicted” flood of coronavirus illnesses. That “rising”
death toll said to be “COVID-19-or presumed to be-COVID-19” brings on the
decisions to lock down the economy and in effect create an economic pandemic of
unparalleled dimensions.
The
lack of uniformly agreed tests and the inaccuracies of many tests used, as well
as the extremely doubtful criteria for declaring a cause of death as being
“from” COVID-19 suggests that it is well past time to re-examine the
unprecedented lockdown measures, social distancing, masking, possible mandatory
vaccines of unproven effect, all of which are producing personal, social and
economic devastation.
Addendum: Where the erroneous
COVID numbers come from: The CDC’s National Vital Statistics System
Understanding the Numbers:
Provisional Death Counts and COVID-19
Provisional death
counts deliver our most comprehensive picture of lives lost to COVID-19. These
estimates are based on death certificates, which are the most reliable
source of data and contain information not available anywhere else, including
comorbid conditions, race and ethnicity, and place of death.
How it works
The National Center for Health
Statistics (NCHS) uses incoming data from death certificates to produce provisional COVID-19
death counts. These include deaths occurring within the 50 states and
the District of Columbia. COVID-19 deaths are identified
using a new ICD–10 code.
When COVID-19 is reported as a cause of
death – or when it is listed as a “probable”
or “presumed” cause — the death is coded as U07.1. This can include cases with or without
laboratory confirmation.
Why these numbers are different
Provisional death counts may not match
counts from other sources, such as media reports or numbers from county health
departments. Our counts often track 1–2 weeks behind other data for a number of
reasons: Death certificates take time to be completed. There
are many steps involved in completing and submitting a death certificate.
Waiting for test results can create additional delays. States report at
different rates.
Currently, 63% of all U.S. deaths are
reported within 10 days of the date of death, but there is significant
variation among jurisdictions. It takes extra time to code
COVID-19 deaths. While 80% of deaths are electronically
processed and coded by NCHS within minutes, most deaths from COVID-19 must be
coded manually, which takes an average of 7 days. Other reporting systems use different definitions or methods for
counting deaths.
Things to know about the data
Provisional counts are not final and
are subject to change. Counts from
previous weeks are continually revised as additional records are received and
processed. Provisional data are not yet complete. Counts
will not include all deaths that occurred during a given time period,
especially for more recent periods. However, we can estimate how complete our
numbers are by looking at the average number of deaths reported in previous
years.
Death counts should not be compared
across jurisdictions. Some jurisdictions report
deaths on a daily basis, while others report deaths weekly or monthly. In
addition, vital record reporting may also be affected or delayed by COVID-19
related response activities.
Dr.
Kohls [send him
mail] is a retired physician from Duluth, MN, USA. In the decade
prior to his retirement, he practiced what could best be described as “holistic
(non-drug) and preventive mental health care”. Since his retirement, he has
written a weekly column for the Duluth Reader, an alternative newsweekly
magazine. His columns mostly deal with the dangers of American imperialism,
friendly fascism, corporatism, militarism, racism, and the dangers of Big
Pharma, psychiatric drugging, the over-vaccinating of children and other
movements that threaten American democracy, civility, health and longevity and
the future of the planet. Many of his columns are archived at Duluthreader.com, Globalresearch.ca or at Transcend.org.
Copyright © Gary G. Kohls, MD
