{"id":11281,"date":"2020-04-09T06:20:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T10:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=11281"},"modified":"2020-04-09T06:20:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T10:20:16","slug":"gop-state-senator-and-physician-exposes-hhs-document-showing-doctors-how-to-over-count-covid-19-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=11281","title":{"rendered":"GOP State Senator and Physician Exposes HHS Document Showing Doctors How to Over Count COVID-19 Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>HUGE! MN Senator and Dr. Reveals HHS Document Coached Him on How to Over Count COVID-19 Cases &#8212; WITH COPY OF DOCUMENT (VIDEO)<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->By Cristina Laila<br \/>\nGATEWAY PUNDIT<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-485301\" src=\"https:\/\/static.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0474-600x338.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0474-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0474-105x59.jpg 105w, https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0474.jpg 750w\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Scott Jensen<\/strong>, a Minnesota physician and Republican state senator said he received a 7-page document coaching him to fill out death certificates with a COVID-19 diagnosis without a lab test to confirm the patient actually had the virus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cLast Friday I received a 7-page document that told me if I had an 86-year-old patient that had pneumonia but was never tested for COVID-19 but some time after she came down with pneumonia we learned that she had been exposed to her son who had no symptoms but later on was identified with COVID-19, then it would be appropriate to diagnose on the death certificate COVID-19,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Dr. Scott Jensen said.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jensen explained that this is not a normal procedure.<\/p>\n<p>Dr.. Jensen said for example if the same patient had pneumonia during flu season and he didn\u2019t have a test confirming the patient also had influenza, he would never diagnose the patient with influenza on the death certificate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-extras trending\"><strong>TRENDING:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2020\/04\/huge-mn-senator-dr-reveals-hhs-document-coaching-overcount-covid-19-cases-copy-document-video\/\" data-type=\"Internal link\" data-type-location=\"in-content-trending\">HUGE! MN Senator and Dr. Reveals HHS Document Coached Him on How to Overcount COVID-19 Cases &#8212; WITH COPY OF DOCUMENT (VIDEO)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SHOCKING: MN Sen &amp; Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drscottjensen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@drscottjensen<\/a> said that he received a 7 pg doc from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mnhealth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mnhealth<\/a> to fill out death certificates with a diagnosis of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID<\/a>-19 whether the person actually died from COVID-19 or not.  <\/p>\n<p>Why is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MN<\/a> inflating COVID-19 death numbers? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/llvHDoIMGH\">pic.twitter.com\/llvHDoIMGH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Berg (@chrisbergpov) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrisbergpov\/status\/1247680994821509121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 8, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Gateway Pundit has a copy of the HHS letter sent out to doctors across the country on counting COVID-19 victims.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The document is<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/455607875\/US-HHS-Document-to-Doctors-on-How-to-Certify-COVID-19-Deaths-including-Related-Deaths\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View US HHS Document to Doctors on How to Certify COVID-19 Deaths including Related Deaths on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/455607875\/US-HHS-Document-to-Doctors-on-How-to-Certify-COVID-19-Deaths-including-Related-Deaths#from_embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">US HHS Document to Doctors \u2026<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<a title=\"View Jim Hoft's profile on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/user\/63538778\/Jim-Hoft#from_embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jim Hoft<\/a>\u00a0on Scribd<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" title=\"US HHS Document to Doctors on How to Certify COVID-19 Deaths including Related Deaths\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/455607875\/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode=scroll&amp;access_key=key-hgx7IsHotFQ50RBVnB15\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/455607875\/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode=scroll&amp;access_key=key-hgx7IsHotFQ50RBVnB15\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.7729220222793488\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As TGP reported over the weekend, the amount of Americans who are reported to have died from the Coronavirus is based on a CDC coding system that will \u201cresult in COVID-19 being the underlying cause more often than not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Birx confirmed this on Tuesday during a COVID-19 task force briefing.<\/p>\n<p>A new ICD code was established to keep track of Coronavirus deaths.<\/p>\n<p>The U07.1 code will be used for death by Coronavirus infection.<\/p>\n<p>However, there\u2019s another secondary code, U07.2, \u201cfor clinical or epidemiological diagnosis of COVID-19 where a laboratory confirmation is inconclusive or not available,\u201d the CDC guidelines read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe underlying cause depends upon what and where conditions are reported on the death certificate. However, the rules for coding and selection of the underlying cause of death are expected to result in COVID- 19 being the underlying cause more often than not,\u201d the guidelines read.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Birx on Tuesday told a reporter during a Coronavirus task force briefing, \u201cWe\u2019ve taken a very liberal approach to mortality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan you talk about your concerns about deaths being misreported by Coronavirus because of either testing or standards for how they are characterized?\u201d the reporter asked Birx.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf someone dies with COVID-19, we are counting that as a COVID-19 death,\u201d Birx said.<\/p>\n<p>There is a big difference between dying\u00a0<em>with<\/em>\u00a0the virus and\u00a0<em>from<\/em>\u00a0the virus.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2020\/04\/huge-mn-senator-dr-reveals-hhs-document-coaching-overcount-covid-19-cases-copy-document-video\/\">HUGE! MN Senator and Dr. Reveals HHS Document Coached Him on How to Overcount COVID-19 Cases &#8212; WITH COPY OF DOCUMENT (VIDEO)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HUGE! 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