CDC director is forced to admit in congress that the "perverse incentive" to tag covid on the death certificate will cause over reporting as it has in past illnesses that had financial incentive to do so.
Doctors are pressured and forced into listing covid on the tag by their administrators for political and financial reasons.
The CDC lists speculative deaths as covid in the data. Not sure if it's covid related, but suspect it might be? That is considered equal to confirmed covid data, and is not differentiated. This is not normal.
So we know that in the official numbers covid gets over reported, but since theres no actual death increase, we see in OP's link what that means for other death totals.
CARES act provisions 20% more money for tagging covid.
CDC director is forced to admit in congress that the "perverse incentive" to tag covid on the death certificate will cause over reporting as it has in past illnesses that had financial incentive to do so.
Doctors are pressured and forced into listing covid on the tag by their administrators for political and financial reasons.
The CDC lists speculative deaths as covid in the data. Not sure if it's covid related, but suspect it might be? That is considered equal to confirmed covid data, and is not differentiated. This is not normal.
The result? A study of the death certificates reveals how much over reporting is going on.
So we know that in the official numbers covid gets over reported, but since theres no actual death increase, we see in OP's link what that means for other death totals.