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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsApparently Red Don is strong-arming the CDC to change the cause of death
in COVID cases to something else. I agree. Change to:
CAUSE OF DEATH: Killed by Trump.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,441 posts)FarPoint
(12,504 posts)We already knew this tRump manipulation was in progress...just more visible now.
malaise
(269,549 posts)Get thee to the greatest page
Eliot Rosewater
(31,162 posts)leftieNanner
(15,218 posts)She wants everybody to play nice with The Orange One.
ChangeNHope
(24 posts)I am not sure what tRump would be doing to the CDC to get cause of death changed. Cause of death is usually local coroner, no?
2naSalit
(87,116 posts)ancianita
(36,271 posts)That's the chain of altering the facts.
Right now, Trump's loyal red governors, like Fla's Ron DeSantis, don't get federal cover for the undercounting they're pressuring their coroners to do. And they want it.
But professionals like coroners and medical examiners can keep two sets of books, too, and the truth of causes of death will eventually come out.
ChangeNHope
(24 posts)Bullying the CDC made no sense to me... but that cleared it up.
But... little that this maladministration does makes sense to me.
Kid Berwyn
(15,233 posts)Flush the turd November 3rd.
Flush often as necessary.
C_U_L8R
(45,054 posts)But he's going to have a tough time explaining to families where their loved ones went.
Blue Owl
(50,685 posts)n/t
VMA131Marine
(4,162 posts)In time well know with some precision how many deaths can be attributed to COVID19 through excess death statistics. We know how many people die, on average, each day in a typical year. The excess over that can largely be attributed to COVID19. Trump cannot make this go away.
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