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Originally Posted by Opie

A conspiracy is the the act of conspiring together or an agreement among conspirators. I'm simply saying that greed exists in the U.S. and the fact of the matter is that facilities received extra funding for handling Covid cases of death compared to other cases of death through the CARES Act. There have been multiple cases of Covid being listed as a cause of death when the patient never had Covid.

https://www.wbtv.com/2020/10/13/covi...hs-long-fight/

https://www.wcjb.com/2020/09/23/mans...alth-responds/

https://www.abc15.com/news/state/are...ed-as-covid-19

https://www.lexingtonchronicle.com/n...th-certificate

https://fox17.com/news/digging-out/t...ovid-pneumonia

and they say you should just play along if it happens, it's for the greater good they say...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/med...es/ar-BB14ZJGc

From the abc article:

Dr. Cara Christ, the head of the Arizona Department of Health Services told ABC 15 that the attending physician that witnesses a death is responsible for determining the cause of death. Not only do most doctors not have a financial incentive to determine causes of death, but there are multiple steps in the medical billing and coding process that are designed to prevent “upcoding” from happening.

Dr. Murtaza Akhter is a professor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, and an Emergency Room physician, who has had to sign several death notes in his line of work. We asked him if upcoding deaths for COVID-19 could occur in Arizona.

“Neither me, nor any of my colleagues do any upcoding, much less for COVID. I’ve never seen it done, that doesn’t mean it’s not possible, but even the data nationally suggests that it’s not happening. Remember, there are liabilities for anybody who does that. The OIG watches this carefully, and in fact, give reimbursement to people who are whistleblowers.” Dr. Akhter told us that the liabilities for upcoding are both civil and criminal.

So the people who code the deaths have no personal stake in the matter. They get paid a salary, do their job, and go home. I don't see how individual greed would affect this.