WATCH: CNN's medical adviser claims US overcounted COVID-19 deaths

"This is why this kind of transparent reporting is going to be so important," Dr. Leana Wen said to the hosts of CNN This Morning."There is a way for us to look at death certificates and also to look at the medical records of individuals prior to their death.""I think this needs to be separated into three categories," she continued."One is COVID as the direct contributor, the primary cause of death. The second is could it be a secondary contributing cause.

The medical analyst first admitted that COVID deaths and hospitalizations were being overcounted in a Friday Washington Post column titled,"We are overcounting COVID deaths and hospitalizations. That’s a problem." "Robin Dretler, an attending physician at Emory Decatur Hospital and the former president of Georgia’s chapter of Infectious Diseases Society of America, estimates that at his hospital, 90 percent of patients diagnosed with COVID are actually in the hospital for some other illness."

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