President Donald Trump repeated an unfounded accusation at a campaign rally in Michigan on Friday, asserting U. S. doctors are misrepresenting the number of coronavirus fatalities because they receive "like $2,000 more" if they report Covid-19 as the cause of a patient's death, a baseless charge that has angered many in the medical community. Trump made a similar accusation last Saturday at a rally in Wisconsin, telling his audience that other countries "report differently." The president claimed that doctors in the U. S. "get more money and hospitals get more money" for each Covid death. "Think of this incentive," he added. The American Medical Association responded to the allegation by tweeting, "let's be clear physicians are not inflating the number of COVID-19 patients." Ashish K. Jha, the dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, wrote that Trump's charges were false and offensive and that they demonstrate "a fundamental misunderstanding of how hospital billing works." Jha added, "to hear our President demean doctors who, along with nurses, have put their lives on the line to manage this public health disaster is beyond the pale." The president of the American College of Physicians characterized Trump's comments as "a reprehensible attack on physicians' ethics and professionalism.", The CDC reported last week that the official Covid-19 death count (229,200 as of Friday afternoon) "might underestimate the total impact of the pandemic on mortality," as an estimated 299,028 more persons than expected have died since January 26, 2020. Relatedly, nearly 300,000 more Americans died from late January to early October this year compared to the average number of deaths in recent years over that same time span, suggesting the Covid estimates appear roughly accurate. Donald Trump Jr., falsely claimed Thursday evening that the number of Americans dying from Covid-19 has dropped to "almost nothing," despite the U. S reporting more than 1,000 fatalities for a second consecutive. The president's son referred to medical experts expressing grave concerns about potential dangers related to the recent Covid spike as "morons."1,336: That's the estimated number of healthcare workers who have died from Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic."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," the American College of Emergency Physicians said in a statement. "Emergency physicians and other health care workers have risked their lives day in and day out for almost a year battling the greatest public health crisis in a generation—all while watching countless patients die alone, going to work without sufficient protection equipment, and struggling with crushing anxiety about getting sick or spreading the virus to their loved ones.


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