{"id":223931,"date":"2020-12-29T08:30:26","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T08:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=223931"},"modified":"2021-01-01T07:40:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T07:40:16","slug":"minnesota-lawmakers-say-coronavirus-deaths-could-be-inflated-by-40-after-reviewing-death-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=223931","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota lawmakers say coronavirus deaths could be inflated by 40% after reviewing death certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emma Cotton \u2013 Washington Examiner Dec 22, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Two Minnesota state lawmakers are calling for an audit of death certificates that were attributed to the coronavirus, saying COVID-19 deaths could have been inflated by 40%.<\/p>\n

State Rep. Mary Franson and state Sen. Scott Jensen released a video last week revealing that after reviewing thousands of death certificates in the state, 40% did not have COVID-19 as the underlying cause of death<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have other examples where COVID isn\u2019t the underlying cause of death, where we have a fall. Another example is we have a freshwater drowning. We have dementia. We have a stroke and multiorgan failure,\u201d Franson said in the video.<\/p>\n

She added that in one case, a person who was ejected from a car was \u201ccounted as a COVID death\u201d because the virus was in his system.<\/p>\n

Franson said she and a team reviewed 2,800 \u201cdeath certificate data points\u201d and found that about 800 of them did not have the virus as the underlying cause of death.<\/p>\n

Jensen pointed out that he gained attention back in April when he criticized the Minnesota Department of Health for following federal guides on recording coronavirus deaths.<\/p>\n

\u201cI sort of got myself in hot water way back in April when I made the comment that I was, as a physician, being encouraged to do death certificates differently with COVID-19 than with other disease entities,\u201d Jensen said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor 17 years, the CDC document that guides us as physicians to do death certificates has stood, but this year, we were told, through the Department of Health and the CDC, that the rules were changing if COVID-19 was involved.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it\u2019s COVID-19, we\u2019re told now it doesn\u2019t matter if it was actually the diagnosis that caused death. If someone had it, they died of it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Jensen and Franson\u2019s video comes after months of people across the country claiming their loved one\u2019s death certificate listed the virus as the cause of death despite suffering from other ailments that would have caused death.<\/p>\n

In Tennessee, for example, a hospital retracted a death certificate for a man who tested negative<\/a> for the virus three times but was listed as a victim of the pandemic.<\/p>\n

In Colorado, a county coroner\u2019s office pushed back against the state\u2019s claim that another victim, who tested positive for the virus, died of it in Montezuma County<\/a> despite dying of alcohol poisoning.<\/p>\n

Franson and Jensen noted in their video that while the deaths attributed to the virus appear inflated, this does not mean the virus should be treated without caution.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe COVID-19 disease is real. There is no question,\u201d Jensen said.<\/p>\n