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RUSH: Now, let\u2019s go, grab audio sound bite number 3.<\/p>\n

Jim Acosta showed back up at the briefing room yesterday from CNN and asked a question to doctors Birx and Fauci about “commentators spreading conspiracy theories about how they categorize coronavirus deaths.” (laughing) Now, who do you think he\u2019s talking about? Who do you think he\u2019s talking about when he talks about “commentators spreading conspiracy theories about how they categorize coronavirus deaths”?<\/p>\n

We\u2019re not doing anything but listening to what Birx is saying.<\/a> Birx said that any opportunity they have to categorize a death as COVID-19, they will. By the way, one more thing. These models — every damned one of them — were based on mitigation. So they can\u2019t claim that the numbers were off because they weren\u2019t factoring in mitigation.<\/p>\n

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The only number that didn\u2019t factor mitigation was the first number, 2.2 million. Every number after that has factored social distancing. They can\u2019t say that the numbers were off because they weren\u2019t factoring in mitigation. Their numbers were off because they were bad. Their numbers were off because the modeling had bad data.<\/p>\n

Their numbers were off because they are a bunch of scaremongerers. They\u2019re a bunch of doomsayers, and the doomsayers can never be wrong. You plug climate change into what she said about we didn\u2019t know we had this kind of power. Plug in climate change! “We didn\u2019t know we had the kind of power to make everybody give up their gasoline car!<\/p>\n

“We didn\u2019t know we had the kind of power to make everybody give up fossil fuels. We didn\u2019t know we had that kind of power.” That\u2019s what they\u2019re trying to do, folks. They\u2019re trying to use the same kind of power they\u2019re using to stay home now to get you opposed to fossil fuels. (sigh) Anyway, I\u2019m getting too worked up here.<\/p>\n

Back to Jim Acosta. This is the briefing last night. And he\u2019s asking the question of Birx and Fauci.<\/p>\n

ACOSTA: There\u2019s a lot of misinformation, conspiracy theories out there about the coronavirus. There are some commentators who are suggesting that the number of dead are being inflated because they\u2019re saying that people who are dying with other issues are being listed as COVID-19 deaths. What do you say to those folks who are making the claim without really any evidence that these deaths are being padded, that the number of COVID-19 deaths are being padded?<\/p>\n

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RUSH: What does he mean without evidence? It was Birx herself yesterday who said — and we played you the sound bite — that any death with COVID-19 is categorized as a COVID-19 death. If you die from heart failure but you have COVID-19 they\u2019re gonna chalk it up to COVID-19. She said that. That word “with” is a big word. If you die with COVID-19, we\u2019re gonna say you died because of COVID-19. But you might not have. They\u2019re the ones padding it, Acosta. We\u2019re just listening to what they say. If they are involved in a conspiracy theory, you need to ask them. Anyway, here is how Dr. Deborah Birx answered his question.<\/p>\n

BIRX: We\u2019ve made it very clear I think every time I\u2019ve been up here about the comorbidities. Those individuals will have an underlying condition, but that underlying condition did not cause their acute death when it\u2019s related to a COVID infection. In fact, it\u2019s the opposite. Having an underlying condition and getting this virus we know is particularly damaging to those individuals.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: So she\u2019s saying it again. She\u2019s saying that if they have heart failure or renal failure, whatever, and they get COVID-19 and they die, it\u2019s COVID-19. She\u2019s saying it\u2019s not a conspiracy theory. Here is how Dr. Fauci answered the question.<\/p>\n

FAUCI: Having been through other serious issues, particularly the very painful early years of HIV\/AIDS when people talk about talk about conspiracy theories, you will always have conspiracy theories when you have very challenging public health crises.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

FAUCI: They are nothing but distractions.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, that\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

FAUCI: I can assure you, we have so much to do to protect the health and the welfare of the American people that I would just hope we just put those conspiracy stuff and let somebody write a book about it later on, but not now.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: All you need to do is go to what Dr. Birx said yesterday about this<\/a>. I don\u2019t know what the deal is. I think they\u2019re trying to bail her out. It\u2019s not a conspiracy theory. It\u2019s brilliant to point out that she said “with,” if you die with COVID-19 you died because of it. And that\u2019s not true. It\u2019s a big difference in dying because of COVID-19 and dying with it. He died with heart failure. Ever say that? No. He died due to heart fail, cardiac arrest. They never say died with it. But she\u2019s saying died with COVID-19 becomes they died because of COVID-19.<\/p>\n

Daily Wire: NYC Data: Vast Majority Who Have Died From Coronavirus Had Serious Underlying Conditions<\/a><\/p>\n

A Minnesota doctor was asked about this, wanted to weigh in on it last night on the Fox News Channel, Dr. Scott Jensen. He\u2019s a Republican, a Minnesota state senator. Question: “That same CDC guidance sheet on COVID-19, references the fact that basically this is a judgment call for doctors on the cause of death. Why is that not correct?”<\/p>\n

JENSEN: If I have a patient that died a month ago, had fever, cough, and died after three days and maybe had been an elderly, fragile individual, and there happened to be an influenza epidemic around our community, I wouldn\u2019t put influenza on the death certificate, and I\u2019ve never been encouraged to do so. I would put probably respiratory arrest would be the top line and underlying cause of disease would be pneumonia, and in contributing factors I might well put emphysema or congestive heart failure. But I would never put influenza down as the underlying cause of death, and yet that\u2019s what we\u2019re being asked to do here.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: So no conspiracy theory. It\u2019s what they\u2019re actually doing. And so the next question, “Dr. Fauci was asked about the COVID death count today, called it conspiracy theories, Doctor. So you\u2019re engaging in conspiracy theories. What do you say to Dr. Fauci tonight?”<\/p>\n

JENSEN: I would remind him that anytime health care intersects with dollars, it gets awkward. Right now Medicare has determined that if you have a COVID-19 admission to the hospital, you\u2019ll get paid $13,000. If that COVID-19 patient goes on a ventilator, you\u2019ll get $39,000.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Did you know that?<\/p>\n

JENSEN: Three times as much.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Did you know that?<\/p>\n

JENSEN: Nobody can tell me after 35 years in the world of medicine that sometimes those kinds of things impact on what we do. If I know I\u2019ve got pneumonia, that\u2019s what\u2019s going on the death certificate. I\u2019m not gonna add stuff just because it\u2019s convenient.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I didn\u2019t know that. Right now Medicare has determined if you have COVID-19 admission to the hospital, you get paid 13 grand. If the COVID-19 patient goes on the ventilator, you get 39 grand. Well, isn\u2019t it amazing what you learn as time goes on if you\u2019re just patient? Oh, well. Conspiracy theory, my formerly ample butt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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