Minnesota lawmakers claim 40-percent inflation in state COVID death numbers: State senator Scott Jensen, a practicing physician, calls for an audit
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“We looked at 2,800 death certificate data points, but of those, what we found was that 2,000 of them had COVID-19 as the underlying cause of death but 800 did not,” she noted.
“That would mean that we’ve had the number inflated by 40 percent,” Franson said.
She noted examples of an auto accident death counted as a virus fatality because the decedent still had “COVID in the system.”
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“We looked at 2,800 death certificate data points, but of those, what we found was that 2,000 of them had COVID-19 as the underlying cause of death but 800 did not,” she noted.
“That would mean that we’ve had the number inflated by 40 percent,” Franson said.
She noted examples of an auto accident death counted as a virus fatality because the decedent still had “COVID in the system.”