Minnesota accused of exaggerating Covid deaths by 40 %

 Red States:

Two Minnesota lawmakers, Rep. Mary Franson and Sen. Scott Jensen, are causing waves after making a bombshell claim that COVID deaths are being heavily inflated. This happened last week after a review of thousands of death certificates.

This per the Washington Examiner.

State Rep. Mary Franson and state Sen. Scott Jensen released a video last week revealing that after reviewing thousands of death certificates in the state, 40% did not have COVID-19 as the underlying cause of death.

“I have other examples where COVID isn’t the underlying cause of death, where we have a fall. Another example is we have a freshwater drowning. We have dementia. We have a stroke and multiorgan failure,” Franson said in the video.

She added that in one case, a person who was ejected from a car was “counted as a COVID death” because the virus was in his system.

Franson said she and a team reviewed 2,800 “death certificate data points” and found that about 800 of them did not have the virus as the underlying cause of death.

This is not just quibbling about whether the virus was the primary cause death. Obviously, you can have cases where the virus was not the cause of death, yet was the catalyst that pushed other co-morbidities into fatal territory. But what Franson and Jensen are talking about is death certificates claiming a COVID death where their obviously wasn’t one. Someone who drowned did not die of COVID just because they had the virus. Someone falling should not be classified as a coronavirus death either.

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Franson and Jensen want an audit to get to the bottom of this.

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If true this would be a case of fraud.  It is definitely worth investigating and if the facts support it, those responsible should be prosecuted. 

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