Former Planned Parenthood Chief, Leana Wen, has told TIME, “Now is the time to recruit and train a backup workforce and to waive licensure requirements and liability laws.” It seems that the Coronoa Virus, which is nothing more than a type of flu, is finally going to arrive at the death counts that a real pandemic might provide.
But it won’t be a hyped-up cold delivering them. It will be ‘healthcare’ providers, free from any liability for treatment AND reporting for seriously ill people with any conditions with a stroke of a pen.
Last week we reported changes to NY healthcare law requiring providers to treat patients during the Corona Scare. Now we’ve learned that they’re also exempted from providing accurate records of treatment:
- Notwithstanding any law or regulation to the contrary, health care providers are relieved of recordkeeping requirements to the extent necessary for health care providers to perform tasks as may be necessary to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak, including, but not limited to, requirements to maintain medical records that accurately reflect the evaluation and treatment of patients, or requirements to assign diagnostic codes or to create or maintain other records for billing purposes. Any person acting reasonably and in good faith under this provision shall be afforded absolute immunity from liability for any failure to comply with any recordkeeping requirement. In order to protect from liability any person acting reasonably and in good faith under this provision, requirements to maintain medical records under Subdivision 32 of Section 6530 of the Education Law, Paragraph (3) of Subdivision (a) of Section 29.2 of Title 8 of the NYCRR, and Sections 58-1.11, 405.10, and 415.22 of Title 10 of the NYCRR, or any other such laws or regulations are suspended or modified to the extent necessary for health care providers to perform tasks as may be necessary to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak;
Due to the Corona scare, nurse practitioners have automatically been given a doctor’s powers, such as the power to anesthetize:
- Sections 405.13 and 755.4 of Title 10 of the NYCRR to the extent necessary to permit an advanced practice registered nurse with a doctorate or master’s degree specializing in the administration of anesthesia administering anesthesia in a general hospital or free-standing ambulatory surgery center without the supervision of a qualified physician in these health care settings;
- Paragraph 1 of Section 6542 of the Education Law and Subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 94.2 of Title 10 of the NYCRR to the extent necessary to permit a physician assistant to provide medical services appropriate to their education, training and experience without oversight from a supervising physician without civil or criminal penalty related to a lack of oversight by a supervising physician;
The changes in NY are now set in motion across the country.
UPDATE:
HOW ARE THEY CODING CORONA RELATED DEATHS IN THE U.S.?
A physician writes in with changes to CDC guidelines regarding the actual coding of deaths in the U.S. related to corona virus:
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The CDC, along with the National Center for Health Statistics, recently published a document explaining the “new code for COVID-19 deaths” to calculate mortality data. You can find it here: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/coronavirus/Alert-2-New-ICD-code-introduced-for-COVID-19-deaths.pdf
Two important paragraphs which indicate the CDC may be tallying “coronavirus deaths” like Italy, or at minimum not completely accurately:
“What happens if the terms reported on the death certificate indicate uncertainty?
If the death certificate reports terms such as “probable COVID-19” or “likely COVID-19,” these terms would be assigned the new ICD code. It Is not likely that NCHS will follow up on these cases. If “pending COVID-19 testing” is reported on the death certificate, this would be considered a pending record. In this scenario, NCHS would expect to receive an updated record, since the code will likely result in R99. In this case, NCHS will ask the states to follow up to verify if test results confirmed that the decedent had COVID19.” [Emphasis added]
And:
“Should “COVID-19” be reported on the death certificate only with a confirmed test?
COVID-19 should be reported on the death certificate for all decedents where the disease caused or is assumed to have caused or contributed to death. Certifiers should include as much detail as possible based on their knowledge of the case, medical records, laboratory testing, etc. If the decedent had other chronic conditions such as COPD or asthma that may have also contributed, these conditions can be reported in Part II. (See attached Guidance for Certifying COVID-19 Deaths)” [Emphasis added]
“Probable” or “likely” or “assumed to have caused” are not exact terms. The big one, it seems, is that if coronavirus “contributed to death”, then it is apparently tallied as a “death from coronavirus.”
This is a big deal. Death “caused by coronavirus” is not the same as “coronavirus contributed to death.” But they are all being lumped into the same category apparently.
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We’ve already learned that the Italian corona death stats have been wildly padded with patients dying from other conditions. What will stop doctors from refusing to treat patients using the trumped up Corona panic as an excuse, then blaming their deaths on the virus? Is this not what leftists have been trying to accomplish for years?
