Statement
In 2020, family doctor and former Minnesota Senator, Scott Jensen, went public to explain that in the early months of the pandemic, he had received an email from the Minnesota state government, informing medical practitioners that the World Health Organisation (WHO) had issued new global guidance on how deaths were to be certified.
Up until then, cause of death had not generally been attributed to a single cause. For example, deaths from cancer were historically categorised as “due to complications from cancer”. Since 2020, however, any patient entering hospital for any reason, including, in some cases, gunshot wounds, is subject to a PCR test (see Nutshell on PCR Tests).
Originally invented by Kary Mullis, who died just before the Covid-19 outbreak, the test was not intended to diagnose viral illness. The Drosten version of the test, moreover, was not based on the real virus (as of June 2021, the US CDC admitted that there was no ‘Gold Standard’ for the isolation of any virus) but from a modelled or coded version of the virus.
So, patients admitted to hospital who have a positive test result and who later die, even if they have already left hospital, are categorised as having died “within 28 days of positive test” or “with covid”.
