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Published January 14, 2023 12:07pm EST

Wen claimed that the actual C****-** death count could only be '30 percent of what's currently reported'

By Gabriel Hays | Fox News
CNN medical analyst and Washington Post columnist Dr. Leana Wen admitted in a column, Friday, that the medical community is "overcounting" the amount of "C***D deaths and hospitalizations."
Wen, who writes an occasional Washington Post column providing her observations on the p******c, masking and other C***D-related subjects, cited sources claiming that most "patients diagnosed with C***D are actually in the hospital for some other illness." The article is titled, "We are overcounting C***D deaths and hospitalizations. That’s a problem." Wen’s observations prompted readers on Twitter to complain, stating that it's "two and a half years late." Wen began her column with some apparent skepticism about the CDC’s latest C****-** death stats: "According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the United States is experiencing around 400 C***D deaths every day. At that rate, there would be nearly 150,000 deaths a year. But are these Americans dying from C***D or with C***D?"
The doctor claimed that "Understanding this distinction is crucial to putting the continuing toll of the c****av***s into perspective. Determining how likely it is an infection will result in hospitalization or death helps people weigh their own risk. She spoke to two Infectious-disease experts, who told her they believed "the number of deaths attributed to C***D is far greater than the actual number of people dying from C***D." Mentioning the first, she wrote, "Robin Dretler, an attending physician at Emory Decatur Hospital and the former president of Georgia’s chapter of Infectious Diseases Society of America, estimates that at his hospital, 90 percent of patients diagnosed with C***D are actually in the hospital for some other illness."
Dretler told the analyst, "Since every hospitalized patient gets tested for C***D many are incidentally positive." Wen noted how people with gunshot wounds or other serious illnesses often test positive for the v***s, and wrote, "If these patients die, C***D might get added to their death certificate along with the other diagnoses. But the c****av***s was not the primary contributor to their death and often played no role at all."
Dretler admitted this contributed to "imprecise reporting" on C***D deaths and hospitalizations, which he added did not come from a place of "bad intent." He denied that there was any "conspiracy" behind it to "exaggerate c****av***s numbers for some nefarious purpose." Wen also cited infectious-disease physician Shira Doron, who figured out that "In recent months, only about 30 percent of total hospitalizations with C***D were primarily attributed to the v***s" in Massachusetts hospitals for example.
Wen recounted Doron’s experience at Tufts Medical Center, writing, "During some days, she said, the proportion of those hospitalized because of C***D were as low as 10 percent of the total number reported" who had C***D. Wen added, "Doron acknowledges that there is a gray zone in the data in which C***D might not be the primary cause of death but could have contributed to it."
Towards the end of her piece, Wen declared, "To be clear, if the C***D death count turns out to be 30 percent of what’s currently reported, that’s still unacceptably high."
Many readers on Twitter seemed frustrated with the piece, expressing that they believed the medical community had been counting for years now and that Wen’s info comes too late. Epidemiologist Dr. Tracy Høeg responded to Wen’s piece, stating, "Spring 2021 [USA] had good evidence >40% of child C***D admissions were incidental. 2021 Denmark announced they'd distinguish with vs from C***D hosp. C***D+ deaths in [Denmark] in 2022 [were] 60-70% incidental."
The doctor added, "Amazing how long it has taken the U.S. to accept this is a problem." Center for Security Policy senior analyst J. Michael Waller slammed the Washington Post over the column, stating, "Not long ago, the Washington Post was calling us conspiracy theorists for saying such things." Author A.J. Kay tweeted, "Well, yeah … You’d think seeing this in legacy media would offer a feeling of vindication or resolution for those of us who have been screaming about it since 2020, but really it’s just exasperation, anger, & grief. The lies caused so much harm." "The Australian" journalist Adam Creighton tweeted, "People saying this a year ago were booted off social media."