Trump baselessly claims doctors are inflating coronavirus death counts for money as cases again hit record levels

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However, if someone who has a pre-existing condition gets Covid and then dies, their cause of death would be Covid-19. Even if that person could have eventually died from the pre-existing condition -- for example, heart disease -- coronavirus will have been what killed them and would be determined as their cause of death.
"The underlying cause of death is the condition that began the chain of events that ultimately led to the person's death. In 92% of all deaths that mention Covid-19, Covid-19 is listed as the underlying cause of death," Bob Anderson, chief of mortality statistics at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said last month in a statement provided to CNN.

It's not the first time that Trump has baselessly questioned the accuracy of the US Covid-19 death count.
"We report them and you know -- doctors get more money, and hospitals get more money. Think of this incentive," Trump said last Saturday. "This country and their reporting systems are really not doing it right."
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