CNN’s Medical Analyst Admits COVID Deaths Are Overcounted

Nearly two decades after the Covid-19 pandemic was declared, Dr. Lena Wen, a CNN medical analyst and Washington Post columnist, admitted that hospitals exaggerated the death toll they claimed was due to Covid. 

Titled, “We Are Over-Counting COVID Hospitalizations and Deaths. That’s a Problem,” Wren acknowledged that “90 percent of patients diagnosed with COVID are actually in the hospital for some other illness.”

“Since every hospitalized patient gets tested for covid, many are incidentally positive,” Wren wrote, citing Robin Dretler as an attending physician at Emory Decatur Hospital.

Wren offered an example.

“A gunshot victim or someone who had a heart attack could test positive for the virus, but the infection has no bearing on why they sought medical care,” She wrote. 

Shocker. However, this admission comes too late. 

At the beginning of Wren’s column, she expressed skepticism after the CDC released its latest Covid-19 death stats. 

The CDC stated that at least 400 Americans are dying each day of Covid. Wren, however, questioned whether these deaths were caused by the virus or another illness. 

“At that rate, there would be nearly 150,000 deaths a year. But are these Americans dying from COVID or with COVID?” She asked. 

Wren acknowledged that hospitals add Covid to death certificates of patients, but the virus often plays no role in their deaths. 

Several critics of Wren’s article expressed frustration that after two years, the Left is just now admitting they were wrong about so many things regarding the Coronavirus. 

TWO AND HALF YEARS OLD, as @DrLeanaWen writes:

“the number of deaths attributed to covid is far greater than the actual number of people dying from covid.”https://t.co/DRvl3TRM4f

— Adrian Norman (@AdrianNormanDC) January 13, 2023

Spring 2021 🇺🇸 had good evidence >40% of child covid admissions were incidental
2021 Denmark declared that they would distinguish between covid and vs hosp
Covid+ deaths in DK 2022 60-70%
Amazing how long it took for the US to recognize that this is a problemhttps://t.co/eg8k3W4JW5

— Tracy Høeg, MD, PhD (@TracyBethHoeg) January 14, 2023

This was clear from the beginning. For three years, doctors, hospitals and public health officials have exaggerated covid’s dangers in every way they could.

— Daniel Kotzin (@danielkotzin) January 14, 2023

Hospitals were financially incentivized to code admissions for Covid and now we’re shocked they overcounted?

— Copse of Trees (@GettysburgMAGA) January 14, 2023