Trump’s despicable attack on doctors’ integrity is a leading topic on all the Sunday news shows. That issue has emerged as Trump’s closing argument, weather his campaign intended it to be or not.
Chris Wallace does a great job exposing Trump’s malicious lie about Doctors deliberately inflating the number of COVID-19 deaths, when Corey Lewandowski attempted to defend this preposterous claim.
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BY ZACK BUDRYK
“I haven’t seen that evidence but we have seen on multiple occasions instances where people have claimed that they have died from COVID-19 and that wasn’t the case,” Lewandowski, a senior Trump campaign aide, said. “I think we’re categorizing individuals who may have COVID but aren’t dying from that and claiming it as a COVID death, which is not accurate.”
Wallace pushed back, saying: “We’re talking specifically about the president claiming that doctors are inflating the number of COVID deaths … it’s a pretty serious thing to say about the nation’s doctors.”
The host also noted that research has indicated the number of deaths from the virus is likely undercounted.
AMA issues statement refuting Trump's claim: "doctors get more money if somebody dies from COVID"
Susan R. Bailey, M.D.
President, American Medical Association
“Throughout this pandemic, physicians, nurses, and frontline health care workers have risked their health, their safety and their lives to treat their patients and defeat a deadly virus. They did it because duty called and because of the sacred oath they took. The suggestion that doctors—in the midst of a public health crisis—are overcounting COVID-19 patients or lying to line their pockets is a malicious, outrageous, and completely misguided charge. COVID-19 cases are at record highs today. Rather than attacking us and lobbing baseless charges at physicians, our leaders should be following the science and urging adherence to the public health steps we know work—wearing a mask, washing hands and practicing physical distancing.”
As you might expect, medical professionals are livid over Trump’s malicious claim.
Full disclosure: my father was a doctor who attended Johns Hopkins Medical School.