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ACP: Falsely Accusing Physicians of Overcounting COVID-19 Deaths For Financial Gain is Reprehensible

M

Mary Wilson

Well-known member
Statement attributable to:
Jacqueline W. Fincher, MD, MACP
President, American College of Physicians

Philadelphia, PA (October 25, 2020) – The American College of Physicians (ACP), on behalf of internal medicine physicians (internists) and related subspecialists, says that statements, including by President Trump, falsely accusing physicians of attributing deaths to COVID-19 for financial gain represent a reprehensible attack on physicians’ ethics and professionalism.


... ACP notes that several recent studies suggest that the actual number of people who have died from COVID-19 is much higher than the terrible toll of 220,000 deaths officially attributed to the virus. Alleging that COVID-19 deaths instead are overcounted undermines the work by physicians and public health authorities to remind the public of the seriousness of the pandemic ...

https://www.acponline.org/acp-newsr...ing_deaths_statement&utm_campaign=coronavirus
 
American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP)

ACEP Rebuts President Trump’s False Statements about Overcounting COVID-19 Deaths

October 25, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C.—In response to President Trump’s baseless claims about physicians miscounting deaths due to COVID-19, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) released the following statement:

... “On behalf of the nation’s emergency physicians, ACEP is appalled by President Trump’s reckless and false assertions that physicians are overcounting deaths related to COVID-19.

... To imply that emergency physicians would inflate the number of deaths from this pandemic to gain financially is offensive, especially as many are actually under unprecedented financial strain as they continue to bear the brunt of COVID-19. These baseless claims ...

https://www.emergencyphysicians.org...statements-about-overcounting-covid-19-deaths
 
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