The idiots in Congress financially incentivized false reporting of COVID-19 cases. When agencies are getting more federal money for a virus case and substantially more with use of ventilators, we’ll never have the true number.
Never mind most any ailment which creates an immunodeficiency and makes the patient more easily subject to contracting COVID-19, what’s the actual cause of death? Most of the time, the cause is complications of the original issue such as organ transplant due to anti-rejection drugs which kill the immune system. But, I saw quite a few that labeled the cause of death as COVID-19.
Hence, financial crimes at the hands of agency management and many cases of outright fraud by lying about the cause. We’ll never know the the truth because no inspector is going to go through a half million autopsies and records to determine the truth.