Coronavirus deaths not only are being counted erroneously, but in some cases are double-counted, according to two board members for the Crime Prevention Research Center. On top of that, deaths that have nothing to do with coronavirus are also being included in the count because of financial incentives to do so.
The errors and overcounting are destroying jobs and costing lives, John R. Lott Jr. and Dr. Timothy Craig Allen say in a dramatic op-ed they wrote for Townhall. Lott is president of the research center; Allen is on the center’s academic advisory board and chair of the department of pathology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. One example they give is that hospice patients who are already dying, but are positive for SARS-CoV-2 at time of death, are being listed as coronavirus deaths, rather than the real reason they were in hospice in the first place.
SOURCE: Townhall May 16, 2020