[fullmetal]

teejers, don't forget that there are severe legal, professional, and financial sanctions placed on any medical professional who falsifies information relating to a cause of death.  This is something no doctor would risk -- in addition, whatever so-called incentives to boost covid mortality numbers would accrue to the hospital corporation and not the doctor, so there is zero incentive for staff to falsify information.

No doctor would take an overdose patient and claim that covid caused the overdose.  I doubt the deceased would even be tested for covid if they were brought in by ambulance and expired in the ER (covid PPE precautions would be taken though).

[fullmetal]

teejers, don't forget that there are severe legal, professional, and financial sanctions placed on any medical professional who falsifies information relating to a cause of death.  This is something no doctor would risk -- in addition, whatever so-called incentives to boost covid mortality numbers would accrue to the hospital corporation and not the doctor, so there is zero incentive for staff to falsify information.

No doctor would take an overdose patient and claim that covid caused the overdose.  I doubt the deceased would even be tested for covid if they were brought in by ambulance and expired in the ER (covid PPE precautions would be taken though).