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Fauci dismisses 'conspiracy theory' of overstated US Covid-19 death toll
The Guardian ^ | April 9, 2020 | Oliver Milman

Posted on 04/18/2020 6:47:54 AM PDT by McGruff

Anthony Fauci, the top US infectious diseases expert, has warned that baseless “conspiracy theories” are swirling around the coronavirus crisis following claims that America’s official death toll from Covid-19 has been overstated.

Fauci, who has been director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, said he had seen unfounded conjecture attach itself to previous crises and dismissed the emerging idea, largely promoted by high-profile figures in rightwing media, that the US’s Covid-19 death toll is being inflated by unrelated medical conditions.

“There is absolutely no evidence that that’s the case at all,” Fauci told NBC on Thursday. “I think it falls under the category of something that’s very unfortunate – these conspiracy theories that we hear about. Any time we have a crisis of any sort there is always this popping up of conspiracy theories.”

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TOPICS: Anthrax Scare; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anthonyfauci; antitrumpers; cnbc; coronavirus; covid19; msnbc; nbc; nobrainscollectively
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1 posted on 04/18/2020 6:47:54 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: McGruff

Isn’t this the same dude who told us we didn’t have to worry about this mess back in February??


2 posted on 04/18/2020 6:49:47 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: McGruff

Listen to Don Fanucci.


3 posted on 04/18/2020 6:52:35 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken)
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To: McGruff

Dr Faustus, it means “we the people” no longer trust our government or the media . . . for damned good reasons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


4 posted on 04/18/2020 6:56:40 AM PDT by RatRipper ( Democrats and socialists are vile liars, thieves and murderers - enemies of good and America.)
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To: McGruff

By his own statements Dr. Fauci does not understand economics.

The cause for case inflation is economic. States and hospitals cashing in because Uncle Sugar is reimbursing them.

That’s not a conspiacy, it’s been going on for a long time. My great-uncle was classified as a tobacco death by New York State because he chewed snuff. He was 94. That was nearly twenty years ago.


5 posted on 04/18/2020 6:57:13 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: McGruff
“There is absolutely no evidence that that’s the case at all,”

What an absurd statement for a supposed scientist to make.

It is very difficult to prove a negative, which is what he is demanding.

The very nature of the statistics we are getting makes the definition of "Covid-19 deaths" uncertain and subject to a high variability.

When a scientist uses the word "absolutely", they are almost always wrong.

6 posted on 04/18/2020 6:57:57 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: ealgeone

“Dr.” Fauci ... the epitome of fake news in the medical field.


7 posted on 04/18/2020 6:58:00 AM PDT by glennaro
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To: McGruff

claims that America’s official death toll from Covid-19 has been overstated.

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It probably has been somewhat overstated. It may not be a conspiracy per se, but it might be a reflection of organizational biases and agendas at work. In other words, there’s probably an inclination to be liberal with the numbers because its benefical in terms of getting more funding. There’s not an organization or bureaucracy on the planet that doesn’t want more money.


8 posted on 04/18/2020 6:59:18 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: ealgeone

This is the same dude who presented his pandemic vaccine in Oct. at Event 201.

9 posted on 04/18/2020 6:59:59 AM PDT by bgill (Idiots. CDC site doesn't recommend wearing a mask to protect from COVID-19)
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To: marktwain

When a scientist uses the word “absolutely”, they are almost always wrong.

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Is he a scientist or a bureaucrat? 36 years in the same job suggests the latter.


10 posted on 04/18/2020 7:01:54 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
His ass and reputation are on the line, and he doesn't want to become the so-called fall guy.

11 posted on 04/18/2020 7:04:51 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: McGruff
Promote Fauci to head of WHO and pack him off to Geneva overnight.

Promote The Scarf to Fauci's spot, but send her back to the kitchen to cook a vaccine.

Open the United States.

It's that simple.

12 posted on 04/18/2020 7:11:35 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (CNN's Dana B: "Show of hands: Coverage for undocumented immigrants?" ***all Democrat hands raised***)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

How are people dying out of hospitals making anyone (except funeral homes) any money?

I keep seeing this crap posted. Medicare is not paying anyone a penny for a death outside a hospital.

You people are spewing the first thought that comes into your heads without checking it at all.


13 posted on 04/18/2020 7:14:47 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: McGruff
Nope. The question was if the virus ESCAPED from a Wuhan lab. Fauci answered that it wasn't CREATED in a Wuhan lab. Dr. Fauci used a typical “strawman” deflection. Dr. Fauci is a skilled dissembler and his allies in the media will further that narrative.
14 posted on 04/18/2020 7:18:10 AM PDT by Ozymandias Ghost
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Hey Fauci, what happened to the 2.2 million US deaths from coronavirus you were pushing just a few weeks ago then?
15 posted on 04/18/2020 7:19:52 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: McGruff

Fraud Fauci has that WHACKO RACIST at the NIH doing research for a Corona virus vaccine...our govt is chock full of bumbling bureaucrats!!!


16 posted on 04/18/2020 7:22:33 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: McGruff

this right here proves he’s a full blown liar as we know for a fact many deaths are being categorized as CV without ever being tested!!!!


17 posted on 04/18/2020 7:23:15 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: McGruff
Sometimes things are true but not conspiracy theories.

States and Politicians and Hospitals and Pharma Industry all have good reason to overstate deaths ... reasons which do not involve an evil conspiracy. Do they talk, and reinforce each other since they share common interests? Of course! Is that a conspiracy? No ... no more than a locust swarm is a conspiracy of locusts. It's more an expression of nature.

18 posted on 04/18/2020 7:23:15 AM PDT by tinyowl
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To: Vermont Lt

Hospitals are required to treat people, even if indigent and uninsured. Generally they end up eating those costs so they do everything they can to avoid that situation. (this is why Michelle Obama had a $300K per year job redirecting such patients to other hospitals).

Hospitals are seeing this as a golden opportunity to clear their books of these cases by collecting COVID reimbursement.

Too many people in this country are in denial over the fact that healthcare is a bidness.


19 posted on 04/18/2020 7:23:26 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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They recently adjusted it down again from 68 to 60k.


20 posted on 04/18/2020 7:27:18 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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